I couldn’t agree more. What is it with people and artificial fruit flavors? In Belgium they put it in fake lambic beers. Unsinkable. That was Swype taking over, but I’m gonna leave it anyway.
Watermelon Jolly Rancher?
Hey, don’t flame me, maybe it does taste fake, maybe it won’t work, nobody really seems to know so what’s the harm in sampling a growler full of beer? I’ve read about a lot of things folks have tried that many think disgusting and actually turned out beer worth drinking so no harm, no foul…cheers
I think the real issue with artificial flavors is that while they may be chemically identical to natural flavors, natural flavors have many compounds that make up their flavor. Artificial flavors seem to be monotone and lack the nuance of the real thing.
That said, I’d be willing to give it a try someday. Why not?
As I wrote before, there is a whole series of Belgian wheat beers with artificial flavoring. Peach, banana, apple, passion, melon, coconut, chocolate, etc. They taste really really bad. I’m sure that if you add real watermelon to a beer, the taste will disappear completely. So for me it is 100 percent certain that if I taste watermelon in a beer it is completely fake.
Fermented real watermelon is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever tasted. Fake has to be better.
I’ve never fined with gelatin. Do you add enough to fine that you would be able to taste or do you have to make beer jello?
You use something like 2 tsp of unflavored gelatin per 5 gal it settles to the bottle pulling gunk with it, it doesn’t effect anything else .
My theory is use a whole packet of watermelon jello (not sure how much comes in a box of jello) which would settle to the bottle clearing the beer, and would be enough to give it a smidge of watermelon flavor.
I would think an entire box would be overkill, personally I’d try may be a teaspoon in a growler full of beer and go from there
I’d be afraid that the amount of jello that you would need to get the flavor that you want would drop all of the hop flavor out of the beer.
Same here. Also, if OP is bottling, one more warning. Regular jello has sugar in it. It’ll cause more fermentation, and if that fermentation isn’t completely done before you bottle, you’ll likely have bottle bombs. Be careful.