Hi! I recently made a batch of dark beer - my own recipe, hard to class as any type of beer - I'd say stout or porter but thats beside the point.
My problem is - I had some issues when i bottled it:
1. Due to a broken syphon - i had to transfer my brew to another vessel which had a tap before bottling - resulting in more sediment than ideal mixing into the beer.
2. When batch priming - i appear to have added too much sugar to the mix.
These two things have come together to create bottles, which while they don't exactly "gush" they do foam a lot, and cause most of the sediment (a lot due to point 1) in the bottles to resuspend when opened. The beer still tastes very nice (which i am very happy to say - it cost a lot to make for a student budget) the only problem is the appearance of the beer, which goes from a lovely velvet black in the bottle to honest to God Diarrhea brown opaque when poured.
Is there anyway i can prevent the other bottles from doing this? I seemed to have limited success with 2l bottles of it, opening it, letting some fizz out, then capping it afterwards, letting yeast settle for a few days then pouring - but with my 500ml bottles the amount that foams out is proportionately much more and wastes quite a lot of this lovely brew.
As the beer doesn't taste sour after weeks since bottling, i would guess that it's not an infection - simply massive overcarbonation, but then again, i'm no expert :S
If anyone wants to try my beer - i've posted it on the recipes forum - its technically sound as long as you don't balls it up like i did here
My problem is - I had some issues when i bottled it:
1. Due to a broken syphon - i had to transfer my brew to another vessel which had a tap before bottling - resulting in more sediment than ideal mixing into the beer.
2. When batch priming - i appear to have added too much sugar to the mix.
These two things have come together to create bottles, which while they don't exactly "gush" they do foam a lot, and cause most of the sediment (a lot due to point 1) in the bottles to resuspend when opened. The beer still tastes very nice (which i am very happy to say - it cost a lot to make for a student budget) the only problem is the appearance of the beer, which goes from a lovely velvet black in the bottle to honest to God Diarrhea brown opaque when poured.
Is there anyway i can prevent the other bottles from doing this? I seemed to have limited success with 2l bottles of it, opening it, letting some fizz out, then capping it afterwards, letting yeast settle for a few days then pouring - but with my 500ml bottles the amount that foams out is proportionately much more and wastes quite a lot of this lovely brew.
As the beer doesn't taste sour after weeks since bottling, i would guess that it's not an infection - simply massive overcarbonation, but then again, i'm no expert :S
If anyone wants to try my beer - i've posted it on the recipes forum - its technically sound as long as you don't balls it up like i did here