tubbfan
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I brewed a scotch ale recently. Found a Founder's Dirty Bastard extract clone on the web (http://www.sicilianosmkt.com/dirtybastard.html). I did make one modification (by mistake) in that I added 8 oz. of Briess black patent (wasn't paying close enough attention to what I was doing). Anyway, I used While Labs Edinburg yeast, the OG was 1.090, fermented at around 70-72 F for two weeks in primary. I didn't use a starter (although I should have, I know now). It took a day and a half for the yeast to start fermenting, but when it did I needed to use a blow off. When I transferred to secondary, the gravity reading was around 1.012. I kept it in secondary for two weeks and then bottled. FG was 1.010. When I tasted the unfermented beer during the process, it tasted great and heavy! However, I tried my first bottle today (that had been in the bottle for 3 weeks at 72-73 degrees). It was thin and the flavor was only OK. What happened to the body and the flavor during bottling?