hopbrad
Well-Known Member
ive brewed about 7-8 batches. my 2nd batch i brewed at the end of Feb and bottled the end of March, ive left some sit around to age. and they werent good at all. they had a band-aid type flavor. to give more info, it was the brewers best Alt-Bier. I drank my first bottle after about 6-7 weeks in the bottle. it was decent. Probably my least favorite of all my brews to present date. but, it did get a little better as the weeks/months went on and no bad off flavors...but still, my least favorite homebrew. i cracked a few open this past week and 2 of the 3 had a very bad taste to it. a very rubbery, band aid taste. then i opened up another tonite, same thing. until this past week, none of the 40-50 beers that i drank from the batch had that band-aid flavor, so im wondering if this style doesnt age well? or if it is an infection that slowly crept up or what...would like to hear feedback. I've yet to brew a beer that needs serious aging, but was going to do a belgium dark strong sorta based off of chimay blue / dogfishhead raison d'etre, and have heard i should let them bottle age for a few months. feedback would be great on my problem with the altbeer and if i should age the belgium for 5-6 months