{"id":153,"date":"2013-12-03T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2013-12-02T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:20:12","slug":"bonus-bitter-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/03\/bonus-bitter-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Bitter Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bonus-bitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155 \" alt=\"bonus-bitter\" src=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bonus-bitter.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bonus-bitter.jpg 300w, http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bonus-bitter-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half a bitter please, barkeep!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A few weeks ago we brewed a <a href=\"https:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/20\/winter-series-deschutes-jubelale-2009\/\">Jubelale 2009 clone<\/a> which we partigyled into a Bonus Bitter.\u00a0 The beer started at 1.036, finished at 1.008 for 3.6% ABV, and is indeed a nice, light, easy-drinking bitter.\u00a0 But there was a flavor problem: good bitterness at the front and maltiness at the back, but a huge black hole of nothing in the middle.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to describe; the initial bitterness changes to a slightly tannic taste without any body at all (like a glass of bitter water) before the final malt appears.\u00a0 What can plug that hole?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bitter-sugar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-156\" alt=\"bitter-sugar\" src=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bitter-sugar.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bitter-sugar.jpg 400w, http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bitter-sugar-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Brown sugar just happens to have the right flavor profile to complement the tannic note and add some body to the hole in the middle.\u00a0 The molasses notes are just a bonus, but still to style as British brewers often use various brown sugars, caramels, or molasses for color and flavor.\u00a0 The only question was how much to add&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A solution of 3 parts boiling water to 1 part sugar was made, whisking the sugar until completely dissolved.\u00a0 Three 6oz glasses of the beer were poured.\u00a0 The first was the control with no sugar added.\u00a0 The second received one teaspoon of sugar solution, and the third glass two teaspoons.\u00a0 Results indicated that one teaspoon was the best amount; it was a noticeable improvement over no sugar at all, while two teaspoons was too sweet.\u00a0 Calculating from one teaspoon per 6 ounces to the 4 gallon batch gave about 1.75 cups for the whole keg.<\/p>\n<p>Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we brewed a Jubelale 2009 clone which we partigyled into a Bonus Bitter.\u00a0 The beer started at 1.036, finished at 1.008 for 3.6% ABV, and is indeed a nice, light, easy-drinking bitter.\u00a0 But there was a flavor problem: good bitterness at the front and maltiness at the back, but a huge &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/03\/bonus-bitter-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bonus Bitter Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}