dblvsn
Well-Known Member
Brewed a Fat Tire clone from Midwest Supplies here a few months back. I usually taste my beers through the process and from the beginning of dumping it into the primary the beer just didn't seem right. But I figured hey its a Belgium beer... what is right about them? Anyways fermentation finished and I racked it over to the secondary. Again something just wasn't right, not bad, but still not right. So onto bottling and aging. Let it age in the bottles for about 2 weeks before tasting one. It was drinkable still not good. It got fairly decent after about 5 or 6 weeks in the bottles. Its been close to 10 weeks in the bottles now and there's a horrific metallic flavor developing in the beer. Had my neighbor come over and try one and that was the first thing he noticed as well. I've researched flaws in beers and many sites pointed to contact with metal (This beer was brewed in an aluminum turkey fryer pot, but have brewed beers since in it that turned out fine) Also found some info that malt stored improperly can lead to metallic flavors. Can anyone help me figure out the most probable cause of this off flavor? I hadn't really noticed the metallic flavor in the beer till recently.