doublebogey10
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I've kept a 22-ouncer of every batch I've made since I began brewing in June of 2011. Not sure why, but I did.
On vacation with family now and I brought all of those with me to open and share and see how they've aged.
Have seen mixed results and some surprising things. Some, like my German Alt, are exactly as remember them. Others, like my Scottish -80 Shilling and my first IPA were just terrible. And my Raspberry Wheat from more than a year ago was amongst a few that were better than I remember them (I thought wheat beer was best consumed fresh?).
A number of my beers have been way over-carbed when I opened them - giant foam heads and some foaming out of the bottle. This wasn't the case when I was consuming the bulk of each batch previously. Is that normal with the longer homebrew is in the bottle? Or is it possible that I've over-carbed from the beginning?
I've since moved on to mostly my own recipes and all-grain, but the bulk of these were extract kits. So I generally used whatever amount of priming sugar came in the kits.
On vacation with family now and I brought all of those with me to open and share and see how they've aged.
Have seen mixed results and some surprising things. Some, like my German Alt, are exactly as remember them. Others, like my Scottish -80 Shilling and my first IPA were just terrible. And my Raspberry Wheat from more than a year ago was amongst a few that were better than I remember them (I thought wheat beer was best consumed fresh?).
A number of my beers have been way over-carbed when I opened them - giant foam heads and some foaming out of the bottle. This wasn't the case when I was consuming the bulk of each batch previously. Is that normal with the longer homebrew is in the bottle? Or is it possible that I've over-carbed from the beginning?
I've since moved on to mostly my own recipes and all-grain, but the bulk of these were extract kits. So I generally used whatever amount of priming sugar came in the kits.