The London Pride / ESB partigyle rabbit hole

[Colindo]

@matt76 Nice to hear you got a good result. Freshness and mouthfeel can often be better in a homebrew than in a bottle, which is why in the end the cask version might be the real deal to compare it too. Remember that is has a much lower ABV though, only 4.1%.

Regarding the Crystal malt and the final beer colour it is very likely that your malt was too dark. Any flavour difference in the maltiness that you can spot?

Fuller's stopped pasteurising their bottles. They are only filtered nowadays, which makes the flavour much closer to the cask version. You could still have an oxidised bottle, of course.

switched this time from CaSO4 to Gypsum so it finishes drier

CaSO4 is Gypsum, so maybe you mean something else?

 

[matt76]

CaSO4 is Gypsum, so maybe you mean something else?

DOH! I used Calcium Chloride originally, switched to Gypsum this time. Thanks for pointing that out, have edited the post above to correct this.

 

[Colindo]

DOH! I used Calcium Chloride originally, switched to Gypsum this time. Thanks for pointing that out, have edited the post above to correct this.

No worries. Fuller's also uses gypsum, so it makes sense that that helped.

 

[matt76]

@matt76 Nice to hear you got a good result. Freshness and mouthfeel can often be better in a homebrew than in a bottle, which is why in the end the cask version might be the real deal to compare it too. Remember that is has a much lower ABV though, only 4.1%.

Yeah, I was aiming for the cask version so perhaps I need to take wander to the pub. It's a hard life.

Regarding the Crystal malt and the final beer colour it is very likely that your malt was too dark. Any flavour difference in the maltiness that you can spot?

Honestly no, nothing that leapt out at me. That said I don't think I have the best palate, I'm always surprised for instance when I send pale ales into forum competitions and people tell me what hop flavours they're picking up.

Fuller's stopped pasteurising their bottles. They are only filtered nowadays, which makes the flavour much closer to the cask version. You could still have an oxidised bottle, of course.

Ooh, that's interesting I hadn't heard that. Good to know