togabear
Well-Known Member
I brewed two really good AG beers on my first go. My 3rd and 4th are not so good-but I think I found the problem. Wanna make sure though, can anyone confirm this?
I got a nice digital thermometer and I made sure it was calibrated when I first got it. I brewed my 3rd and 4th AG beers with this thermometer in the same week and got slightly high OGs. After 3 weeks in the carboy, I kegged and carbed them earlier this week. They both have a very strong bitter and mouth puckering taste and almost no malt...i guess almost very grainy? Except for the off flavor they taste like okay drier beers. The first one is drinkable, the second one is really bad. I checked my hop usage and the bitterness wasn't from that.
I luckily tested the digital thermometer today after tasting that...it reads 25 degrees lower than what it actually is....I hit mash temps of 185F...crap. Back to my old one.
Most importantly, Is my beer screwed?!?! And is that the taste you get from high mash temps? Will aging really help much more or will that taste always be around? I was going to drink the lower OG beer (1.050) soon and leave the other one a month or so.
I got a nice digital thermometer and I made sure it was calibrated when I first got it. I brewed my 3rd and 4th AG beers with this thermometer in the same week and got slightly high OGs. After 3 weeks in the carboy, I kegged and carbed them earlier this week. They both have a very strong bitter and mouth puckering taste and almost no malt...i guess almost very grainy? Except for the off flavor they taste like okay drier beers. The first one is drinkable, the second one is really bad. I checked my hop usage and the bitterness wasn't from that.
I luckily tested the digital thermometer today after tasting that...it reads 25 degrees lower than what it actually is....I hit mash temps of 185F...crap. Back to my old one.
Most importantly, Is my beer screwed?!?! And is that the taste you get from high mash temps? Will aging really help much more or will that taste always be around? I was going to drink the lower OG beer (1.050) soon and leave the other one a month or so.