m3n00b
Well-Known Member
Brewed in may..bottled in August. OG was 1.127 fg was 1.022. IBU is 115. It's starting to finally carbonate but tastes like syrup.
Will time help?
Will time help?
14% ABV and 115 IBUs and it tastes like syrup? 1.022 definitely isn't too high to make it syrupy sweet, I had an 8.5% weizenbock finish at 1.020 and it was the perfect level of residual sweetness. Have you checked your hydrometer lately?
Regardless, time should definitely help.
If they are starting to carbonate I can take that to mean they have not had a chance to eat up all of the priming sugars.
In a lot of cases barleywines get a bit more sweet over time as the hop levels fade, but they get smoother too. Do you think the bitterness is in line with a barleywine at this point? A lot of people add a bit more hops in anticipation of the bitterness level dropping in the future. It depends on whether they plan on drinking it all in a relatively short amount of time, or plan on cellaring the beer.
Yeah, give it a year... we made an Old Curmudgeon clone which was absolutely atrocious right away. Horrendously syrupy. After 6 months it was pretty respectable.
After nearly a year, it's out-freakin'-standing. So put it in the back of a cool closet and forget about it...
Carbonation eats up sugar and adds bitterness.
It needs to be fully carbed to be judged.
You BOTTLE CARBED THIS???
You are lucky it is carbing at all.
What yeast is surviving in that monster?
Yeah, give it a year... we made an Old Curmudgeon clone which was absolutely atrocious right away. Horrendously syrupy. After 6 months it was pretty respectable.
After nearly a year, it's out-freakin'-standing. So put it in the back of a cool closet and forget about it...
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