ArrowheadAles
Well-Known Member
Any ideas on what happened here?
Ok, so I wanted to enter a pale ale I made into a competition a few weeks ago. The beer was kegged and in order to get it into the bottle I just turned the gas down to around 4 or 5 psi and let it trickle into the bottle until I had a handful of bottles full and capped them. I don't have a beer gun yet so that wasn't an option. I sent two into the competition and kept the rest here to try on the day of the tasting to see what had changed and how the beer tasted. It was only about two weeks later. The rest of the keg however only lasted about another week so it was all gone and I had none of that to compare it to but it tasted WAAAY different out of the keg. Awesome hop flavor and aroma IMO.
So here is what happened. We opened a bottle Saturday to see how it was and ALL the hop flavor and aroma was gone! ALL OF IT! It tasted like malt extract. No hop at all. I dry hopped it with 3 oz of whole leaf hops and it was in the range of IBU's for a pale ale. We opened a couple more and all of them had the same thing going on.
Now to compare it to something else, I made a ten gallon batch of this stuff and this 5 gallons is all gone but the other I had fermented with Belgian yeast and it's on tap right now and tastes just as hoppy as the first round did when it was in the keg. It's really good but not even comparable hopwise! Is hopwise a word?
Anyways, here is the recipe and I appreciate anyone helping me with this if you have some input that can prevent this in the future. Thanks!
Pale Ale
Efficiency 75%
Batch size 12 gal
O.G. 1.051
F.G. 1.013
Color 8 SRM
ABV 5.04%
IBU 38.7
Yeast: 1 of the primary is Wyeast 1272 the other was Belgian Ardennes both had a 2L starter.
22 lb Canadian 2-Row
.25 lb Amber Malt
1 lb Crystal Malt I
1 oz Amarillo 60 min
1 oz Amarillo 30 min
Yeast Nurtient 15 min
Whirfloc 15 min
1 oz Amarillo 15 min
1 oz Amarillo 10 min
1 oz Citra 5 min
Dry Hop each secondary with
.5 oz Amarillo
1 oz Citra
1.5 oz Simcoe
Ok, so I wanted to enter a pale ale I made into a competition a few weeks ago. The beer was kegged and in order to get it into the bottle I just turned the gas down to around 4 or 5 psi and let it trickle into the bottle until I had a handful of bottles full and capped them. I don't have a beer gun yet so that wasn't an option. I sent two into the competition and kept the rest here to try on the day of the tasting to see what had changed and how the beer tasted. It was only about two weeks later. The rest of the keg however only lasted about another week so it was all gone and I had none of that to compare it to but it tasted WAAAY different out of the keg. Awesome hop flavor and aroma IMO.
So here is what happened. We opened a bottle Saturday to see how it was and ALL the hop flavor and aroma was gone! ALL OF IT! It tasted like malt extract. No hop at all. I dry hopped it with 3 oz of whole leaf hops and it was in the range of IBU's for a pale ale. We opened a couple more and all of them had the same thing going on.
Now to compare it to something else, I made a ten gallon batch of this stuff and this 5 gallons is all gone but the other I had fermented with Belgian yeast and it's on tap right now and tastes just as hoppy as the first round did when it was in the keg. It's really good but not even comparable hopwise! Is hopwise a word?
Anyways, here is the recipe and I appreciate anyone helping me with this if you have some input that can prevent this in the future. Thanks!
Pale Ale
Efficiency 75%
Batch size 12 gal
O.G. 1.051
F.G. 1.013
Color 8 SRM
ABV 5.04%
IBU 38.7
Yeast: 1 of the primary is Wyeast 1272 the other was Belgian Ardennes both had a 2L starter.
22 lb Canadian 2-Row
.25 lb Amber Malt
1 lb Crystal Malt I
1 oz Amarillo 60 min
1 oz Amarillo 30 min
Yeast Nurtient 15 min
Whirfloc 15 min
1 oz Amarillo 15 min
1 oz Amarillo 10 min
1 oz Citra 5 min
Dry Hop each secondary with
.5 oz Amarillo
1 oz Citra
1.5 oz Simcoe