Munton's IPA kit ruined by spraymalt?

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I could not find any white sugar in my kitchen so I used medium spray malt to prime my pressure barrel. Even 100g has imparted a toffee-like flavour to my beer. It's been in barrel for three weeks now; will it mellow or should I ditch it?
 
Thanks Baron. Perhaps it's just the contrast with the hoppy Razorback I was drinking over the last week.
 
It'll be fine it will also widen your horizons as it is easy to get locked in on the Hoppy IPA syndrome. I like a fruity hoppy IPA but there are plenty of other good beer styles that is easy to forget about and a lot of IPA's do have plenty of crystal in them and Munich malt too just look at it as a experiment. Enjoy
 
I do all grain but have used spraymalt in my past with kits. I would not use a lot of spray malt in less malty styles probably 50/50 spraymalt and brewing sugar but there are better forum members who have a lot more experience with kits and can advise better
 
extra light spraymalt is as neutral as you can get, remember if you made a drink with just white sugar you'd not enjoy drinking that, so you do want 'maltyness' use light / extra light as a base or in kelpers case keep a bag of extra light to hand.
 
Have you done this kit before? If not why do you believe its the DME?
Personally I would not have thought that adding 100g medium DME would really be that noticeable, whether compared to white sugar or even light DME. If you factored that up by 10x it would be different.
I only use table sugar for priming but keep it in my brewing store. The sugar kept in the kitchen is kept separate.
 
I could not find any white sugar in my kitchen so I used medium spray malt to prime my pressure barrel. Even 100g has imparted a toffee-like flavour to my beer. It's been in barrel for three weeks now; will it mellow or should I ditch it?

I can't believe that what you primed 100g with has made much difference. Which IPA kit was it, just from curiosity, and what else was added?
 
As the title says, it was Munton's IPA. I followed the recipe to the letter, apart from the spray malt. I'd not done this kit before.
 
Muntons IPA.... a toffee-like flavour to my beer...I'd not done this kit before
A caramelly toffee-like flavour in your beer could be what is described as 'twang'. There are several threads on this forum about that, look it up, with many theories as to what causes it. My favourite is cheap or old LME, but I have found the few Muntons kits I did suffered from it even the Wherry kit, thats why I stopped doing them. Perhaps that's the cause
 
I did one of these, it wasn't an IPA by any definition. It was dark with no hoppiness at all.
I would call it Muntons Twangy Mild.
 
Thanks. It's not twang. It's just not as I would expect an IPA to taste like and I won't buy it again.
 
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