Priming Sugar Experiment Results
If you have been following Brew-Dudes for the past few weeks, you know that as a part of the Brown Porter brew session, we threw in an experiment at bottling. We had a bag of KreamyX and we wanted to see if it did what it said it would do: increase head formation and retention.
At bottling, we split the 5 gallon batch equally into two bottling buckets. One had a priming solution made with corn sugar, the other was made with KreamyX. We bottled as usual and we waited. Both sets of bottles were placed in the same area for priming. We tried our hardest to keep everything the same except for the priming solution.
Last night, two bottles were opened up and the contents were placed side by side:
Well, I don’t know what your take is from the photos above but it appears to me that KreamyX produced a fuller head that lasted longer. The beer with the corn sugar as a priming solution had a nice head too, but the KreamyX outperformed it.
on December 15th, 2008 at 6:28 am
[...] UPDATE: Here are the results of the experiment! [...]
on December 15th, 2008 at 6:30 am
[...] UPDATE: Here are the results of the experiment! [...]
on December 15th, 2008 at 6:30 am
[...] UPDATE! Here are the results! [...]
on December 15th, 2008 at 6:31 am
[...] I’ll be using it and we will let you know how it turns out in a few weeks. [...]
on December 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Did you find any difference in the taste or aroma?
on December 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I don’t think I can credibly state if there was a taste difference. I wrote to Mike this morning and told him that the KreamyX beer tasted creamier. He wondered what I would say if the product was called TastyX?
I’m just a marketing-brainwashed robot.
Knowing that I couldn’t be unbiased and that this experiment was really about head formation/retention, I left it out of the post.
To be fair, we would have to do a true blind taste test (like, blindfold and all) and report the findings. Not sure if we would do that…but if enough people ask…we will.
on December 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I am ready to perform the blindfolded taste test. We’ll wait until the head falls out a bit and then do it up. How will it perform against the leading brand?
on December 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
It’s like the Pepsi challenge redux!
on December 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Priming Sugar Experiment Results…
Comparing the head formation and head retention of Kreamyx versus corn sugar. We poured the beers and took pictures. Take a look at the results….
on May 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 am
[...] Well, I bottled last night and it went without a hitch. I made a priming sugar combination of KreamyX and corn sugar. I had to create this combination due to my priming sugar experiment. [...]
on August 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 am
I’m reminded by our LBS that it only takes 4 things to make good beer: Grains+Hops+Yeast +Water. They go on to mention a Canadian brewery in the late ’50s that added some chemical to improve head retention. After 11 people died they pulled the product.
Keep it simple …………..
on November 13th, 2009 at 3:40 am
I was intriqued with KreamyX too, and went to the Munton’s website to see what was it in. I like to know what’s in the food I eat and in the beer I drink. One ingredient in KreamyX is propylene glycol. The chemical industry says tells us that ingesting small amounts of this chemical is safe but it’s also in antifreeze and brake fluid. I
t seems if there isn’t a huge discernable difference in the body and head it would be best to stay away from pg. Maybe the incident at the Canadian brewery involved pg, but maybe not. It would be nice to know though….