Brilliant Discovery

[SouthBay]

So, earlier, my mom stops by for a bit and brings a Bud Light. She knows i homebrew, but really doesnt like much outside of the American Light Lager category. I drink one with her, and after she leaves, i opened up the last bottle of a batch of homebrew I have... one that i didnt particularly like because of some off flavors.

Low and behold, after drinking the bud light, my less than desirable beer tasted awesome.

Lesson learned: any time you have a homebrew beer that doesnt come out the way you want it, you don't really like, etc, just slam a bud light before you drink it, and your brew will taste better than ever before!

 

[montecristo]

Lol, I'll try that. About 8 months ago I made a raspberry wheat that had a smokey taste to it, I really didn't like it. Kind of found it's way to the back of my home brew collection until about a month ago when I threw 2 bottles in the fridge. Boy what a difference!! I actually lived it. Granted you had just drank some sludge light, maybe it had conditioned into a good beer.

 

[Teromous]

In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

 

[thecad]

had a cream ale i made while back, thought i messed it up pretty bad. after a few monthes sitting in the basement it turned out respectable and most people like it. Proof that time heals all, even beer.

 

[wSelwyn]

I've only had two batches go bad (poor quality control on my part with sanitation of bottling wand). Even if a batch is almost undrinkable, I always find it better than a cheap, adjunct lager. They both tasted fine when drank after lambics.

 

[Chap]

I think it's damn cool that Mom would stop by with any beer!

 

[ktblunden]

That's really funny.

My first brew (a rather mild pale ale) turned out to be pretty disappointing to me. I thought I had screwed it up and I just wasn't happy with the taste. It has a kind of musty taste that I just didn't like. Recently I had a Magic Hat #9 and found it tasted almost identical to the one I had made. Looked up the recipe for that one and found out that except for some fruit added to the Magic Hat (that I really didn't notice tasting it), the grains and hops are almost identical. So My beer turned out good, it's just not suited to my particular tastes.