So this is my first post on this forum after reading through it for many hours before and after brewing my first batch (two weeks ago) I've searched the forum and some posters have hinted at this, but I wanted to have a definitive answer.
The brew is a basic light ale kit that came from morebeer and was included in my starter brewkit. Everything went more or less as planned. Sanitation was maintained and the recipe was followed. Aside from having a hard time achieving a boil on the stove-top and probably steeping the crystal too long(color ended up too dark) and possibly burning some extract(kind of a caramel taste) brewing was fine. Cooled the wort and pitched the yeast about the right temp and fermentation went fine. Two weeks in primary and the hydrometer readings matched(went from 1.04 to 1.01 dead on for the recipe). I tasted the wort at this point on bottling day and enjoyed half a glass. The beer tasted completely fine with no off taste. I boiled the priming sugar and let reach room temp and then poured into
Bottling bucket. Siphoning got off on the wrong foot with a little air in the tube, but quickly resolved. Bottled without any problems. After one week (I know it's early!!) I chilled one and then tasted it. Half a second of good beer, then horrible plastic taste that lingers till near the finish. Could this be from the vinyl racking tube included in the kit? It was rinsed/sanitized along with everything else and the beer tasted fine before it passed through it. Will the taste ever diminish with aging?
The brew is a basic light ale kit that came from morebeer and was included in my starter brewkit. Everything went more or less as planned. Sanitation was maintained and the recipe was followed. Aside from having a hard time achieving a boil on the stove-top and probably steeping the crystal too long(color ended up too dark) and possibly burning some extract(kind of a caramel taste) brewing was fine. Cooled the wort and pitched the yeast about the right temp and fermentation went fine. Two weeks in primary and the hydrometer readings matched(went from 1.04 to 1.01 dead on for the recipe). I tasted the wort at this point on bottling day and enjoyed half a glass. The beer tasted completely fine with no off taste. I boiled the priming sugar and let reach room temp and then poured into
Bottling bucket. Siphoning got off on the wrong foot with a little air in the tube, but quickly resolved. Bottled without any problems. After one week (I know it's early!!) I chilled one and then tasted it. Half a second of good beer, then horrible plastic taste that lingers till near the finish. Could this be from the vinyl racking tube included in the kit? It was rinsed/sanitized along with everything else and the beer tasted fine before it passed through it. Will the taste ever diminish with aging?