Hi, I recently brewed an bottled a Brewers Best American Amber kit and all went great through the fermentation. It started and stopped at the correct OG and FG reading per the instructions. I left it in the main fermenter for 3 weeks then moved it to a bottling bucket for immediate bottling. At this point I noticed that it had a pretty bitter taste that wasn't' expected since I wasn't doing an IPA or heavily hopped beer. So I waited 4 days and popped a bottle open after putting it in the refrigerator for a few hours, yes I know I'm supposed to wait 2 weeks to complete the carbonation but i wanted to know what it would taste like early. It had little carbonation yet but the bottle did make that cool sound when i popped the cap. I noticed to a lesser extent that the beer still tasted bitter. I was wondering if this is a result of the hop pellets that came with the kit, instead of real hop leaves these dissolve into the beer, I'm wondering if that adds more bitterness. Is it possible this will smooth out over time and this is just what a young beer tastes like? I think in some of the threads I've seen a young beer referred to as green, can anyone explain what that means?
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