Super bitter beers tasting salty?

[delzep]

Drinking a super hoppy homebrew using 250g of EKG in a version of a vintage 1858 Tetley A recipe and of course its super bitter but its also quite salty tasting....its an unusual but not unpleasant taste. Anyone done a beer similar to this and got similar results?

[irish_goat]

250g of EKG? In a regular size batch? Assuming you didn't add any brewing salts yourself?

[St. Fursey]

Your hop addiction has destroyed your taste buds :p

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[Eoin]

I've seen salt added to bitter for liquor treatment and seasoning purposes, but without having added salt......??

[Hop Bomb]

I did the Truman export stout recipe from 1890. Similar hopping rate near 200g of fuggles. It turned out too bitter (100 ibu) & too much coffee espresso from the black malt. Bit of a salt aftertaste. Id brew it again but change the recipe to make it a better beer. To quote Evan from Kernal "The proper respect for an old recipe is to make a good beer. It's not necessarily about following it word for word. You can follow it as closely as possible, but if you make some crap, it's faithful perhaps, but still crap"

[Garry]

The rebel brewers are doing an old school English ale for the whiskey barrel at the moment. I added 200g of EKG to my batch (25L). I wouldn't call it very bitter. It's almost balanced! So 250g sounds OK to me.

What was your OG? Mine was around 1.080 although we were aiming for 1.090.

I don't get any salt of it though.

Is this what you used the Yorkshire yeast on?

[delzep]

I used 250g of EKG at 90 minutes and that was it so its well over 100IBU.

I used Notty for this beer as I hadn't got Yorkshire Ale yeast at that time. The beer is delicious by the way

[Taf]

I also used 200g of EKG for my barrel contribution, but not all at 90 mins, and it's probably one of the tastiest beers I have brewed in a while. I't regularly use 200g or more in a brew, so don't think it is extreme, but is possibly a sign of a hop addiction.

[Garry]

I used notty on mine too, I didn't know how to do a starter  I think my hop additions were 80g @ 60min and 120g @ 30min. All in @ 90min sounds mad 

Maybe Taf is right, you should talk to someone?

1000 posts, wohoooo 

[delzep]

Was just a once off

[Dr Horrible]

I'm pretty sure all those old style super hoppy beers were all intended to be left to sit in barrels for a minimum of a year to let them mellow out, so it could just be a matter of leaving the beer alone for a while.  That's the intention for the Rebel October Ale, although I think it's going to be very hard to wait for a year - Garry may need a good lock on his shed!

[Tom]

I'm pretty sure all those old style super hoppy beers were all intended to be left to sit in barrels for a minimum of a year to let them mellow out

Also those hops are reputed to have lower AAs.

Not that that answers the salty problem! Do you wash your glasses in a dishwasher?

[delzep]

I am the dishwasher