hello,
i am new to the forums and semi new to home brewing (about 6 batches in) and had some questions about bad tasting and smelling beer.
1st bad one we made a few weeks ago (actually brewed 3 different beers that day) 2 turned out fine and one came out with an AWFUL taste and smell. we ruled it to be a cooking error since we were very new to homebrewing at that point and ended up dumping the entire 1/6 barrel because it was un-drinkable
we were hoping that this was a one time mistake and a couple weeks later we did out first all grain beer. we made a gravity fed mash rig with a server tower, 2- 10 gallon igloo coolers and a 1/2 barrel keggle.
everything seemed to work perfectly until we put it in the carboys. we used 2- 5 gallon carboys for fermentation. when we filled the carboys we filled one half way up then filled the other half way then went back and topped them both off with the rest of the wort because we didnt want one to end up more concentrated than the other.
now the problem started here. one carboy was almost twice as dark as the other which was odd but we didnt think to much about. we did primary for a week with airlocks one blew and the other didnt so we put a blowoff on it. after primary was complete we racked them into secondary for another week.
all seemed to go as planned besides the unexplained change of color. we kegged them last night and cranked pressure up to 25 psi to carb them and today we decided to give them a taste test. the lighter one came out as it should and when we tried the darker one we have that same awful taste and smell (awful enough to pour the keg)
the cook was all the same, the carboys both sat right next to each other and stayed right around 68f the only diff between the 2 was we used 2 different packs of yeast (same yeast) just a different pack for each carboy.
my brewtarget app crashed and lost all recipes so cant remember what yeast it was only that it was white labs.
any input on what we may be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated and i am sorry to have my first post be a problem brew but it wont be my last post.
thanks in advance!
i am new to the forums and semi new to home brewing (about 6 batches in) and had some questions about bad tasting and smelling beer.
1st bad one we made a few weeks ago (actually brewed 3 different beers that day) 2 turned out fine and one came out with an AWFUL taste and smell. we ruled it to be a cooking error since we were very new to homebrewing at that point and ended up dumping the entire 1/6 barrel because it was un-drinkable
we were hoping that this was a one time mistake and a couple weeks later we did out first all grain beer. we made a gravity fed mash rig with a server tower, 2- 10 gallon igloo coolers and a 1/2 barrel keggle.
everything seemed to work perfectly until we put it in the carboys. we used 2- 5 gallon carboys for fermentation. when we filled the carboys we filled one half way up then filled the other half way then went back and topped them both off with the rest of the wort because we didnt want one to end up more concentrated than the other.
now the problem started here. one carboy was almost twice as dark as the other which was odd but we didnt think to much about. we did primary for a week with airlocks one blew and the other didnt so we put a blowoff on it. after primary was complete we racked them into secondary for another week.
all seemed to go as planned besides the unexplained change of color. we kegged them last night and cranked pressure up to 25 psi to carb them and today we decided to give them a taste test. the lighter one came out as it should and when we tried the darker one we have that same awful taste and smell (awful enough to pour the keg)
the cook was all the same, the carboys both sat right next to each other and stayed right around 68f the only diff between the 2 was we used 2 different packs of yeast (same yeast) just a different pack for each carboy.
my brewtarget app crashed and lost all recipes so cant remember what yeast it was only that it was white labs.
any input on what we may be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated and i am sorry to have my first post be a problem brew but it wont be my last post.
thanks in advance!