cdragoon
New Member
I brewed up my first beer about three weeks ago. I used just a can of muntons light hopped extract and some dextrose, just to see if i could make a beer. I used nottingham yeast, fermented at room temp (about 68 F) and it spent 2 weeks in the primary before it was bottled. I went to try one after about a week in the bottle and i went to take a sip and it had an awful smell of rubbing alcohol. it smelled really good while fermenting and i took a little sample during bottling and it seemed ok. i'm just not sure what went wrong, its kinda disappointing since this is my first batch. any ideas? could it be the muntons hopped extract?