So, I recently brewed an IPA recipe that I got through my LHBS. Just before bottling, I sampled a taste and it was great!
However, a couple/few weeks later, I've now tested 2 bottles, about a week apart each, and have noticed some major changes in the flavor of the beer since I bottled it. 1) it has an almost burnt rubber smell to it. It's hard to describe but the aroma of the beer has definitely changed. 2) there are some funky flavors in here that I'm also having a really hard time describing.
At first I was really just hoping that a little more time would smooth out the beer and that maybe there was some by-products of carbonation that would settle out of the beer after a little more conditioning, but from what I can remember, it doesn't seem to have made much improvement after another week of conditioning. I'm gonna be really bummed if this batch went bad somewhere along the way during carbonation, but I'm open to any input or suggestions that anyone has.
Useful information:
-dry hopped with pellet hops for about 10 days after roughly 14 days of fermentation. Did NOT use a hop bag or cheese cloth to hold the hops, just dumped them in and let them sit.
-accidentally stirred up some of the trub while siphoning into my bottling bucket with then was mixed in pretty will with the beer when adding in my priming sugar
-bottles sat at a fairly stable 74-ish degrees F for 10 or so days before cracking open the first bottle of beer.
My plan is to continue to wait it out in hopes that my brew evens out a bit and some of these strange off flavors disappear, but if anyone has any thoughts to the contrary I'd certainly appreciate them.
(I wonder if maybe the beer somehow got over oxygenated during bottling?)
However, a couple/few weeks later, I've now tested 2 bottles, about a week apart each, and have noticed some major changes in the flavor of the beer since I bottled it. 1) it has an almost burnt rubber smell to it. It's hard to describe but the aroma of the beer has definitely changed. 2) there are some funky flavors in here that I'm also having a really hard time describing.
At first I was really just hoping that a little more time would smooth out the beer and that maybe there was some by-products of carbonation that would settle out of the beer after a little more conditioning, but from what I can remember, it doesn't seem to have made much improvement after another week of conditioning. I'm gonna be really bummed if this batch went bad somewhere along the way during carbonation, but I'm open to any input or suggestions that anyone has.
Useful information:
-dry hopped with pellet hops for about 10 days after roughly 14 days of fermentation. Did NOT use a hop bag or cheese cloth to hold the hops, just dumped them in and let them sit.
-accidentally stirred up some of the trub while siphoning into my bottling bucket with then was mixed in pretty will with the beer when adding in my priming sugar
-bottles sat at a fairly stable 74-ish degrees F for 10 or so days before cracking open the first bottle of beer.
My plan is to continue to wait it out in hopes that my brew evens out a bit and some of these strange off flavors disappear, but if anyone has any thoughts to the contrary I'd certainly appreciate them.
(I wonder if maybe the beer somehow got over oxygenated during bottling?)