Beer lost flavor after bottling??

[sefrayser]

Before I bottled my beer had a honey taste. I bottled the beer and its been sitting for 9 days. I decided to try one to see how its coming along. I put 2 in fridge yesterday and popped the top on one. There is no honey taste at all. How could it loose the honey taste from bottling? Its a good smooth beer but when I sampled the brew when obtaining the FG at bottling it had a sweet tea taste. Is this normal for a Honey Wheat beer?

 

[dxbq48]

A lot of the time this can be because the yeast is still working on carbonating the beer. I have gotten some strange flavors from this process. I tend to wait at least 2 weeks to taste any of my bottled/kegged batches. I figure this way I am not wasting any of the good tasting beer that is coming soon.

Just wait it out and I can almost guarantee that the flavor will come back.

 

[eelpout]

If you want honey taste or smell, use honey malt.
Put honey in so you can say its a honey beer, but use the honey malt.


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[sefrayser]

Honey LME was used in receipe

 

[sefrayser]

I will leet it sit for a week or 2 more and then try it again.

 

[uatuba]

How cold was it?


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[HermeticHealer]

Just wait it out man, it will taste completely different once it's fully carbonated. More than likely you'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

[sefrayser]

its been sitting in my closet at 68-70 degrees

 

[Georg]

I think the process is just not finished yet, it is a good temp in your closet, so wait at least a week.

 

[unionrdr]

I had this kind of thing happen with my Vanilla porter I made for Christmas. It was a pb/pm biab robust porter with two chopped & scraped vanilla beans soaking in a small jar of vodka during primary. I added the strained,resulting solution to my priming solution to bottle. Flat out of the primary,it tasted like Euro chocolate with vanilla,roastiness on the back. Perfect,I thought. After some 3-4 weeks carb/condition time & a week in the fridge,the chocolate qualities were all but gone. I guess the carbonation (to style) brought out some flavors more,other flavors lessened. The nearest I can figure is to use more chocolate malt?...I still wonder about this myself?...