hoss450

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My first beer did not turn out so well. I made Brewers Best American Nut Brown Ale. It looks fine but has a cider taste to it and is flat. The aftertaste lingers. I cant seem to find much in the way of help in reading books. It says I possibly had too much sugar in the wort. That doesnt make sense to me since I used a mix. I followed the 1,2,3 method. The only area I felt like I did not do very well in was queitly siphoning the beer from the secondary to the bottling bucket. It did not go as well as the primary to the secondary, but I would not consider it to have been a sloppy job. I also had a fair amount of trub in the primary, but I have read that is not a problem. Did I try to difficult of a beer for my first time? Any help would be appreciated.

Soulive

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What was your recipe? Table sugar can contribute cidery-ness to the beer...

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hoss450

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It was a complete beer in a box. All the ingredients were included. I used to cans of malt extract.

DeathBrewer

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did it come with corn sugar to add?

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Yooper

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I've used BB kits in the past, although not that particular one. Usually they are quite good. I wonder if you bought an old kit off the shelf. How did the liquid malt extract (LME) look? And how were your fermentation temperatures?

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hoss450

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looked fine to me, dark in color, rather thick. My room temp was about 65 for the ferment. I added no sugar other than the kit. Here are the directions.



http://www.homebrewit.com/Brewers_Best_Instructions/1048_American_Nut_Brown_Ale.pdf

Soulive

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So did you put the 5oz. of "priming sugar" into the boil?

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EdWort's Haus Pale Ale Count

malkore

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even 5oz of priming sugar won't cider a beer. I've used a pound of sugar without problems (other than beer with not enough body).

contamination and infections can cause cidery flavors too.

or it might just be too green to judge.

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Soulive

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It could also be acetaldehyde...

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Primary = Evan!'s Special Bitter
On Deck = EdWort's Porter / American Amber

EdWort's Haus Pale Ale Count

Yooper

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How long ago did you bottle it? You said it's still flat?

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