I made a sam adam's ale clone recipe, which called for dry hopping.
I just threw the hops straight in my carboy secondary and waited about 2 weeks for them all to settle to the bottom.
So that I would not get any hops into my bottling bucket I wrapped my racking cane in nylon hop bag as a strainer. It worked alright, but it kept clogging and I accidently moved my cane during the transfer which I think stirred up a bunch of the sediment.
I bottled and last night I tried my first one(after 3 weeks int he bottle)....it was awful. The taste is like someone used the beer to put out a camp fire and then squeezed the beer out of the ashes back into the bottle.
I should note that the sample bottle I tried had alot of sediment in it, I had rolled the bottle a few days ago to see how much sediment it had and it was substantial (much more than a usual carbonation deposits).
I am thinking the entire batch is ruined, but will sample a few more random bottles and see if it was just one or all.
Did I get hop particles in my beer is that was caused the bad taste?
I just threw the hops straight in my carboy secondary and waited about 2 weeks for them all to settle to the bottom.
So that I would not get any hops into my bottling bucket I wrapped my racking cane in nylon hop bag as a strainer. It worked alright, but it kept clogging and I accidently moved my cane during the transfer which I think stirred up a bunch of the sediment.
I bottled and last night I tried my first one(after 3 weeks int he bottle)....it was awful. The taste is like someone used the beer to put out a camp fire and then squeezed the beer out of the ashes back into the bottle.
I should note that the sample bottle I tried had alot of sediment in it, I had rolled the bottle a few days ago to see how much sediment it had and it was substantial (much more than a usual carbonation deposits).
I am thinking the entire batch is ruined, but will sample a few more random bottles and see if it was just one or all.
Did I get hop particles in my beer is that was caused the bad taste?