david_the_greek
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ok guys I don't want to write down the whole recipe and bore you if I don't have to, so I'll just explain what happened first. Well I went with a recipe from a LHBS for my first beer, it was supposed to be a hoegaarden clone. Things went..... ok.... from the start. I freaked out A LOT but things eventually got going. My OG was on target at about 1.048 or so (notebook in basement). I posted last week about how I transfered early (after 3 days of fermentation and its been 6 days since then) and well heck I'm just about ready to throw it in a keg so I can clear up a carboy. I tasted a little bit today when I was going to check it with my hydrometer, which might I add is slippery when wet and apparently very fragile, and it seemed to A) lack body, B) taste to bitter for the style and have no sweetness to it at all and C) other than the bubble gummy smell have no real character to it. So lets hear some opinion, let it sit in a keg for a week or so and then carb? Let it sit in the carboy? Carb it ASAP and drink it till I forget about it? What the heck should I do with this stuff, its depressing me! add to that my nice wine kit may or may not have been messed up because of my poor autosiphoning abilities a little while back and I haven't been able to brew my IPA that I have all my ingredients for and I'm a sad camper I will throw a huge THANK YOU!!! out to edwort because his apfelwein and a second version of it made with a weizen yeast are the only things I have been able to do right!