TampaBrewer1
New Member
Hi,
I am fairly new to brewing. I had my first 2 batches go sour on me. I identified the problem (rinsing my sanitizer off with tap water from a contaminated tap), and corrected it. My 3rd batch was pretty freakin delicious (a chocolatey porter based on john palmers "port o palmer" recipe). I aged it in the bottle for 1 week and it was well carbonated, if not a little too carbonated. I refrigerated about half of them and they were all pretty awesome.
The other half I put in the fridge after 2-3 weeks of being in my luke warm closet and when I tried to drink them they had all soured...
This is kind of stressing me out. From what I have read, bottle-conditioned beer is supposed to age well. It was never above 70-75 degrees F in that closet. What the hell happened to my beautiful beer?
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or knowledge on the matter.. My fourth batch is just now done conditioning and I don't want to have to buy a whole refrigerator just to keep it good for more than a week or 2.
I am fairly new to brewing. I had my first 2 batches go sour on me. I identified the problem (rinsing my sanitizer off with tap water from a contaminated tap), and corrected it. My 3rd batch was pretty freakin delicious (a chocolatey porter based on john palmers "port o palmer" recipe). I aged it in the bottle for 1 week and it was well carbonated, if not a little too carbonated. I refrigerated about half of them and they were all pretty awesome.
The other half I put in the fridge after 2-3 weeks of being in my luke warm closet and when I tried to drink them they had all soured...
This is kind of stressing me out. From what I have read, bottle-conditioned beer is supposed to age well. It was never above 70-75 degrees F in that closet. What the hell happened to my beautiful beer?
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or knowledge on the matter.. My fourth batch is just now done conditioning and I don't want to have to buy a whole refrigerator just to keep it good for more than a week or 2.