Beer deteriorating too quickly

[ColonelPanic]

I made a beer that I liked very much - so much so that I have repeated it a couple of times - but it seems to peak at about 4-6 weeks in the bottle and then deteriorates into something entirely drinkable but not a patch on the nouveau.

Evidently storage temperature will play a part. I keep the beer in a (shaded) garden shed so the May brew may have suffered from summer, but I recall doing a kit brew (St Peters IPA) that did nothing but improve in the same conditions over the best part of a year.

Any advice on making a moderately hoppy beer that will keep its fragrance for more than a few weeks, or do I have to resign myself to drinking it very quickly?

 

[dad_of_jon]

I made a beer that I liked very much - so much so that I have repeated it a couple of times - but it seems to peak at about 4-6 weeks in the bottle and then deteriorates into something entirely drinkable but not a patch on the nouveau.

Evidently storage temperature will play a part. I keep the beer in a (shaded) garden shed so the May brew may have suffered from summer, but I recall doing a kit brew (St Peters IPA) that did nothing but improve in the same conditions over the best part of a year.

Any advice on making a moderately hoppy beer that will keep its fragrance for more than a few weeks, or do I have to resign myself to drinking it very quickly?

hoppy beers need to be drunk quickly.

you can over hop to compensate for the drop in hoppyness but it's a fact of life that hoppy beers drop off pretty quickly :-(

 

[DoctorMick]

I find hoppy beers stay good for 2-3 months after being bottled, the key for me is to start drinking them early as they tend to be good pretty quickly.

 

[ColonelPanic]

Thanks folks.

Sounds like I'd better get supping.

It's a hard life.