BBL_Brewer
Well-Known Member
Hello All,
I need some input please. I've been brewing for about three years now. I used to bottle everything and loved it. No seriously, it was the bomb. I finally broke down about a year ago and started kegging. Loved the ease of it and the time savings. Wasn't as happy with the beer flavor though as compared to my old bottle conditioned beers. Well, here recently I built myself a big ole home brewery and now I'm bottling some again. (mainly to get me through the summer because I don't want to brew during hot weather)
Well, now that I've been drinking kegged beer for a year.......I've been sampling some bottles that are more than aged and ready to drink......good carbonation.....nice and clear........no excessive sediment. Went from primary to secondary to bottles. I just know I'm doing everything right.
The problem is......the bottled beer tastes weird to me now. Like there are off flavors or something. I can have two identical 5 gallon buckets and bottle one and keg one and I'm completely unhappy with the bottles now.
I even tried priming some with DME and some with corn sugur to see if that would make a difference.....nope.
Any insight or thoughts on this? It's really got me bummed, because I can buy a bottled Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or a pint on tap and it tastes the same to me......?????? It's gotta be something I'm doing wrong.....but what?
I need some input please. I've been brewing for about three years now. I used to bottle everything and loved it. No seriously, it was the bomb. I finally broke down about a year ago and started kegging. Loved the ease of it and the time savings. Wasn't as happy with the beer flavor though as compared to my old bottle conditioned beers. Well, here recently I built myself a big ole home brewery and now I'm bottling some again. (mainly to get me through the summer because I don't want to brew during hot weather)
Well, now that I've been drinking kegged beer for a year.......I've been sampling some bottles that are more than aged and ready to drink......good carbonation.....nice and clear........no excessive sediment. Went from primary to secondary to bottles. I just know I'm doing everything right.
The problem is......the bottled beer tastes weird to me now. Like there are off flavors or something. I can have two identical 5 gallon buckets and bottle one and keg one and I'm completely unhappy with the bottles now.
I even tried priming some with DME and some with corn sugur to see if that would make a difference.....nope.
Any insight or thoughts on this? It's really got me bummed, because I can buy a bottled Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or a pint on tap and it tastes the same to me......?????? It's gotta be something I'm doing wrong.....but what?