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I brewed a scotch ale extract kit, and here's the thing.
I drank the majority of the stuff within 3 weeks of bottling, and at that time, the beer was very nice, and full bodied. But I took a six pack and stowed that away at about 60-65 degrees for a total of 2 months from bottling.
Then yesterday I cracked one of these open (after chilling for a few days) and the beer was fizzy and thin. Now on a brewing network show I listened to, they said that aging your beer depends on your sanitation, and that you have a certain bacteria load in the bottle, and that over time it will take over and spoil your beer.
Does it look like this is what happened to my beer? If not, what do you think it could be? If so, how can I prevent this? If the answer is to store the beer cold, how do I gauge when I should put it into the fridge? Is taste/examining the carbonation, the only way to do it? And if storing the beer cold is the answer, does beer go through the beneficial aging process at fridge temp?
I drank the majority of the stuff within 3 weeks of bottling, and at that time, the beer was very nice, and full bodied. But I took a six pack and stowed that away at about 60-65 degrees for a total of 2 months from bottling.
Then yesterday I cracked one of these open (after chilling for a few days) and the beer was fizzy and thin. Now on a brewing network show I listened to, they said that aging your beer depends on your sanitation, and that you have a certain bacteria load in the bottle, and that over time it will take over and spoil your beer.
Does it look like this is what happened to my beer? If not, what do you think it could be? If so, how can I prevent this? If the answer is to store the beer cold, how do I gauge when I should put it into the fridge? Is taste/examining the carbonation, the only way to do it? And if storing the beer cold is the answer, does beer go through the beneficial aging process at fridge temp?