However, an unpasteurized beer can have a limited shelf life and be subject to spoilage. This can be a good thing if the beer is kept refrigerated and consumed fresh. Some beer from small breweries is packaged unpasteurized. It won’t kill you if you drink it but if it smells bad it’ll taste worse. You will know immediately if this is the case, as the beer will smell bad and taste awful. Poor sanitation, bacterial contamination. The very bad: The beer is infected and spoiled. This is mostly a cosmetic thing, but its presence reflects inattention or poor practice by the brewer. Also bad but not necessarily fatal is poor filtration at the brewery, which allows particulates to end up in the bottle. In this case, the floaters tend to look like snowflakes rather than the yeast sediment from bottle conditioning. The liquid breaks down, the proteins fall out, the hop character goes away and the beer tastes stale, oxidized, and musty. While we all know that some beers such as barley wines and strong ales can be laid down for extended periods and actually improve with age, this is not the case with many other beers. Some craft beer has been known to get lost on the shelf for ages. First – and probably most common – is that the beer is just plain old. Bottle-conditioned beers can be quite good and the yeast is a part of the experience. It’s not bad and doesn’t affect the flavor. This yeast will settle to the bottom of the bottle but will become “floaters” when the beer is agitated or moved – like when you are pouring it or drinking it. However, there will also be yeast in the bottle, some of which was left there and some that was generated by the fermentation. Either way, the result is a mild fermentation taking place in the enclosed bottle which creates a natural carbonation and a small increase in the alcohol content. Sometimes the bottle will be filled with beer that is still fermenting. Bottle conditioning is a deliberate process whereby a small amount of active yeast and sometimes a bit of fermentable material such as maltose or some other type of sugar is added to the bottle prior to capping it. The good: The beer has been bottle-conditioned. I like to think of them as the good, the bad, the very bad, and the ugly. There are different types of ‘floaties’ caused by different things.
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and 1 p.m., you’ll get an exclusive first taste of the new beers and you’ll receive a free Dunkin’ Harpoon IPA Donut filled with Harpoon IPA jelly and topped with candied malt crumble.Bob Brewer answers your questions about the world of beer and brewing.īryan (via Facebook): Bob, could you please address beer ‘floaties’ – the particles sometimes hanging out in the bottles of craft beers?īob: Good one, Bryan. If you want to experience the beers ahead of spooky season, the brands are celebrating the launch with a Dunkin’ Walk-Thru at Harpoon Brewery on August 30. You can get your hands on a six-pack by visiting a Buffalo Wild Wings in the Boston area starting in October or by using the Harpoon beer finder. And the porter is made with the Midnight roast coffee for a dark and chocolate-y 6-percent ABV beer. The blonde ale is made with actual Dunkin’ donuts and maple syrup-basically like a maple crème donut in 5.5-percent ABV beer form. The IPA pulls inspo from the Blueberry Matcha Latte from Dunkin’ with blueberries and matcha (obviously) that give a bright, juicy flavor in a 6.6-percent ABV beer. New to the lineup are a Blueberry Matcha IPA, a Maple Crème Blonde Ale, and a Midnight American Porter.
They have the fan-favorite, the Pumpkin Spiced Latte Ale brewed with Dunkin’ coffee, pumpkin puree, cinnamon and lactose, creating a creamy, roasty, and pumpkin-y 5.2-percent ABV beer.
And this year, it’s not just one, but four different flavors.
The PSL is out at Starbucks, apple-flavored everything is everywhere, and Harpoon Brewery and Dunkin’ are releasing their annual beer.
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