.....but wondered if you can make it better the next go around?
My second batch in this hobby was a nut brown extract recipe from NB. I have 8 beers of that left, and I'm to the point of making myself drink it. It has a very sharp bite in the aftertaste. The instructions called for 2 weeks fermentation, 2 weeks bottle condition. I let it set in primary for 3 weeks, and waited 3 weeks after bottling before drinking.
When I brewed this beer, I was still using the swamp cooler method. About half way through the fermentation period, I landed my mom's freezer and a digital temp controller for it, so I moved it there and set the temp to 62F. Before, the (ambient) temp was around 68F. Is the higher temp at the beginning the reason for the sharp aftertaste? This kit came with Nottingham dry yeast, if that matters.
I'd like to brew this again and see if I get a different result. But then again, I'm just wondering if this is a brown ale recipe I should just pass up if I've had something better, like the Caribou Slobber.
Have any of you had a similar experience? If so, did you retry a recipe or move on to better?
My second batch in this hobby was a nut brown extract recipe from NB. I have 8 beers of that left, and I'm to the point of making myself drink it. It has a very sharp bite in the aftertaste. The instructions called for 2 weeks fermentation, 2 weeks bottle condition. I let it set in primary for 3 weeks, and waited 3 weeks after bottling before drinking.
When I brewed this beer, I was still using the swamp cooler method. About half way through the fermentation period, I landed my mom's freezer and a digital temp controller for it, so I moved it there and set the temp to 62F. Before, the (ambient) temp was around 68F. Is the higher temp at the beginning the reason for the sharp aftertaste? This kit came with Nottingham dry yeast, if that matters.
I'd like to brew this again and see if I get a different result. But then again, I'm just wondering if this is a brown ale recipe I should just pass up if I've had something better, like the Caribou Slobber.
Have any of you had a similar experience? If so, did you retry a recipe or move on to better?