Hello
Just opened a bottle from my first ever batch. Tssszech! ahhhhh. What a satisfying noise that first bottle makes!
It's better than I thought but I'm a little "half-full" at the best of times so that was to be expected. It's certainly drinkable.
There are problems though and it'd be good to have your opinions of which of the many inevitable mistakes I made caused them or is the most likely cause of them.
Problems:
- Slightly sour taste.
- Initially very fizzy then slightly flat
- slightly chemically taste at the end
(My main) Mistakes:
- It's been hot in London the last few weeks and my fermenting beer went from 24C to 26C for two days then dropped back down to 24C.
- Once bottled it's sat in the shed which is hot in the day and about average 16C at night.
- I sprayed "None rince" sanitiser into each bottle, tipped it out then filled the bottles, perhaps there was too much left in there?
The beer:
- Muntons American IPA
- 2 weeks fermentation
- Bottled 4 days ago, tried today!
Note:
I didn't have enough bottles to bottle it all so put some in a pressurised barrel that I have. That beer doesn't have the chemical taste.
Thanks in advance for any responses.
Just opened a bottle from my first ever batch. Tssszech! ahhhhh. What a satisfying noise that first bottle makes!
It's better than I thought but I'm a little "half-full" at the best of times so that was to be expected. It's certainly drinkable.
There are problems though and it'd be good to have your opinions of which of the many inevitable mistakes I made caused them or is the most likely cause of them.
Problems:
- Slightly sour taste.
- Initially very fizzy then slightly flat
- slightly chemically taste at the end
(My main) Mistakes:
- It's been hot in London the last few weeks and my fermenting beer went from 24C to 26C for two days then dropped back down to 24C.
- Once bottled it's sat in the shed which is hot in the day and about average 16C at night.
- I sprayed "None rince" sanitiser into each bottle, tipped it out then filled the bottles, perhaps there was too much left in there?
The beer:
- Muntons American IPA
- 2 weeks fermentation
- Bottled 4 days ago, tried today!
Note:
I didn't have enough bottles to bottle it all so put some in a pressurised barrel that I have. That beer doesn't have the chemical taste.
Thanks in advance for any responses.