boomtown25
Well-Known Member
Everyone on here knows that the golden rule is RDWHAHB. I would say the second rule (or the silver rule) is: "Leave it alone, let it do its thing, time works wonders with beer. Well, I have to beat a dead horse on that one. Last week I tried my Cucumber Summer Ale after a week of bottling. I knew it was green, just wanted to see how it was coming along. It was so rancid smelling and they were all gushers (I think I got the priming sugar calculations wrong) that I proceeded to pour out what I thought was all of the bottles (I did this cause I needed the bottles to bottle more beer) without even tasting it. Well I had put a 6 pack of HB in the fridge two days ago that I thought was Dunkelweizen, but I opened one last night only to find out it was some cucumber Ale that had escaped the death sentence. Still a gusher, but had mellowed enough to let me taste it. While it was still green and not my favorite, it had a very interesting taste which if mellowed several more weeks could turn out to be pretty cool. Needless to say, my haste has cost me about a case and 1/2 of beer that MAY have been alright cause I jumped to conclusions- GIVE IT TIME NOOBS. GIVE IT TIME.......