Red Placenta IPA

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Re: Red Placenta IPA

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Consensus after adding keg hops is that everyone liked it. Sadly, I don't but there's still time. No metallic flavors but I get a mish-mosh of hop flavors that I don't find complimentary. I only have a small amount left so it'll get emptied soon.
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More reading (because I just can't let some things go) is that Calcium (Ca+2) and magnesium (Mg+2) in large amounts will produce a metallic flavor so maybe my comment in my original post of having too low ph and making adjustments caused this problem. I'm going with this assumption.
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Re: Red Placenta IPA

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But don't you think that would have reared its head sooner? Or do you think that as the hops fade it became more pronounced?
I didn't think you had that beer around for long enough for the hops to fade, though.
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I did think about that but maybe because it was so fresh, the hops were really popping and it likely covered any slight off flavors.
I even wondered if using so much Red X might be the cause but lots of people seem to go 100% with this malt and don't mention any problems.
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Re: Red Placenta IPA

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Yeah, the amber I sent out used 100% Red X and I didn't pick up on that. Nor did any of you that drank it.
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