Damn.... Talk about crossing threads lol
Sad thing is, to make another batch and age it for 18 years I'll be 73 when it's ready.
I've been hitting these over the years. Sometimes three or four a year, sometimes none. Been interesting to taste the flavor changes it's been through.
All the Best,
D. White
Gary_Oak can do better in one week than this guy can in 2.5 years.
Gary_Oak has infiltrated the rest of the forum. He needs to stay in his degenerated thread. We must not allow it to spread!
Everytime I see an update on this thread I get excited. To keep that excitement contained, I'm going to have to ask for everyone to cease posting until the OP returns with tasting notes.
or you could take 3 min to pop off the caps, sprinkle in a few dry yeast crumbs and recap. great thread OP and no offence, but i think we're all starting to see how it took 2.5 years for this to get bottled
Thanks for the update! So what did your buddy think of it?
He didn't say mcuh beyond "not bad." I think he was afraid to hurt my feelings.
He didn't say mcuh beyond "not bad." I think he was afraid to hurt my feelings.
I know that feeling. I had multiple friends raving about a terrible beer I made as one of my first batches.
I know that feeling. I had multiple friends raving about a terrible beer I made as one of my first batches. I knew it was bad, floating proteins in the bottle, syrupy mouth-feel, extremely unbalanced, and at the time under-carbonated.
I've learned to no longer trust my friends in matters of beer reviewing. I need to join a home brew club in my area, at least then I should be able to get honest opinions. Although I believe it is in human nature to tell white lies when face-to-face with someone to prevent issues.
What we like to do to avoid this is grab a few bottles of a similar style beer, and the blind taste test our batch along with the other beers that should be similar. That way, no one else knows which beer is which and they tend to be more honest about it. Plus, it's fun to compare and it's a good reason to get together and drink more beer!
Alright, I am back. I see a few folks are eager to read about how the beer tastes. Sorry I didn't get on sooner to type up a response, just didn't get around to it.
So on Saturday night (day 14 of in the bottle), I cracked open a bottle with a buddy of mine. I could not wait to taste it! It did fizz *a little*, not much, but there were signs of carbonation! Very little however, I poured the beer into the glass (half for me, half for my buddy - wasn't goign to waste 2 bottles if it needed more conditioning). We gave each other a salute, and drank up.
It was flat, and I can't stand flat beer (which is why I don't bother tasting out of the primary - I'd throw out every batch based on the pre-conditioned taste). No signs of hops at all, it did have a *very faint* beer aroma. No foul smell, no hops smell, kind of like light beer I guess. Drinkign it, it was hard to get away from the flatness of it and it was not very good. Extremely bitter (I love IPAs but I made a bitter-beer face) but without the tasty benefits of the hops. I don't know what beer tastes like after autolysis occurs, but the beer did not taste good, but it certainly dit not smell bad which makes me think autolysis did not happen. It did not taste sour so I don't believe the beer to be infected. I know this will probably annoy a few of you but the weak carbonation gave me hope and I am going to give it more time to see if those yeasts can reproduce some more and add some more CO2 to the beer.
If you are interested in this story, please give it time. On the day I bottled it, my intent was to just throw the batch away but couldn't get myself to do it since the beer smelled fine and did not have any signs of infection. We feared the yeast would be dead to few, and it would probably take a while to condition if it conditioned at all.
Note: I updated the original post, marked 5/14/2015 update with the above posted added below that.
What's with this surge of copy/paste posts. I almost answered it until I remembered seeing the post awhile ago.
Spambot. If you quote them, some crazy link shows up.
What's with this surge of copy/paste posts. I almost answered it until I remembered seeing the post awhile ago.
....or well aged.
5/26 update: This past Saturday, the beer hit the 4 week mark in the bottle. Guys, it is disgusting. Carbonation has not improved, the off-flavors seem worse (maybe for the initial tasting my enthusiasm masked this, as I wrote off the bad taste to being flat). There's **** floating around in it, it's just bad. I hate to say it but it will probably be dumped.
**salutes** Nevar forget.
Can you give more details on what it tastes like?
Well this just ruined my plans for a 3 year IPA!
why?
Because the second taste test came back as it tasted like "ass".
It tastes like ass. I don't mean hot Victoria's Secret model ass, I mean sweaty crackwhore who's been out in the Summer heat for 12 hours ass.
I find it slightly disturbing that anyone anyone would know what sweaty crackwhore ass would taste like.
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