tobiasbeecher
IPA King
Can anyone confirm that the taste changes a fair amount after primary? The smell and taste at the moment is almost like cider for me!
Can anyone confirm that the taste changes a fair amount after primary? The smell and taste at the moment is almost like cider for me!
8 days in and bubbling on average once every 10 seconds. what bubble frequency do people stop after?
Could use some advice guys.....
I brewed this kit myself a couple of months ago, and think I underestimated the temperature of the room I left my FV in (since bought a heating tray as the room got cold overnight). Bottled the beer after mixing with 100g of priming sugar but noticed it was fizzing in the neck as I bottled it into swing top bottles. I lost about 3 in the first week, exploding. Decided to cycle all the swing tops and relieve some of the pressure, but when I did - a load of sediment rose to the top and didn't budge. Left things for a few weeks and the beer cleaned as expected, so opened one and it exploded all over me lol! As I finished wiping the beer off the ceiling, the froth had calmed to a liquid in my glass but the process had re-mixed all the sediment into the beer. Had a taste, and it was pretty bad but tasted very strong in alcohol. As a last ditch effort to save the batch, I bought a keg, popped every bottle into the keg rather explosively - and then just left it. Poured a small glass last night and it tastes like pure ethanol! It's pretty awful to be honest. Although I've learned a lot from this brew (like really check fermentation has finished, not just check for air-lock activity), I'm left with a barrel of undrinkable ale (even with lemonade). Is there anything anyone can suggest to save the batch? Was thinking of just adding more water, but there wasn't much of a beer/hop taste left either it was that strong.
Any ideas?
JD
I take it I should just leave it?
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