JimHalpert
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A year or so ago I made an American Lager from a kit. I did everything the instructions said to do and everything looked and smelled normal during bottling. I placed the primed and capped bottles in my basement, on shelves that I covered with an old table cloth to prevent any light from hitting the bottles. The temperature remained close to 60F. I let the beer age a month or so before pulling out a bottle to try. I noticed the bottle had a green ring around the neck of the bottle where the beer level was. I checked the rest of the batch and all of them looked the same. Upon opening the bottle foam immediately began pouring out of the bottle and I noticed a slightly strange odor. Not a bad odor, but not like most beers I've smelled. I began opening and dumping the bottles out because I assumed they were bad. However, I couldn't stand to watch beer go down the sink, so I tried some. It didn't taste too bad. I did not have the courage to drink more than a few sips.
Any ideas what happened to it?
Any ideas what happened to it?