Off Flavours after adding Cacow Nibs to Secondary

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Bedford_Brew

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Hi,

This is my first time posting on here and I would extremely grateful for any help that anyone can offer me.

I have recently brewed a stout from a beer making Kit. After a week in Primary, I moved it onto Secondary for the same amount of time. Whilst in secondary, I added cacow nibs to try and get a chocolaty flavour. Before adding the nibs, I roasted them for 15 minutes as I read this acts as a way to sanitise and also bring out the flavours of chocolate. However, they did smell a little bit burnt when I brought them out. Nonetheless, I added them to the secondary for the full week. I removed them yesterday and racked to my bottling bucket.

I was wondering if these flavours are likely to settle down by either: 1) bottling and leaving to age. or 2) placing back into the secondary fermenter and leaving a while longer.

Or is my batch simply ruined?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :)
 
Hmmm...it may mellow out,it may not. You'll have to wait and see. Sorry it's not much help to you but waiting is standard practice if you're unsure if a brew and it's definitely not infected.
 
Hmmm...it may mellow out,it may not. You'll have to wait and see. Sorry it's not much help to you but waiting is standard practice if you're unsure if a brew and it's definitely not infected.
Thank you for your help! I'm thinking I will bottle it anyway and leave it for a couple of months to age. Don't think it will do any good putting it back into the carboy
 
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