Recent content by mikepowie

Yet another update: as some of you predicted, it's hit an miss, mainly a miss. I have had a few people try it besides my wife. I've gotten that's "it's not bad, but not great" as well as "too Hefeweizen" and "metallic-ey". Some of the bottles "cleaned up" a little better where the...

Just another update: it's getting a tiny bit better still. Keeping it in the fridge for a few weeks helps as well, but there's still that estery taste. It' far from ideal, but at least I didn't have to dump it. FWIW, I'm doing a golden crown lager right now, and used a combination of S-23...

Thanks, Jako and portguy. As for bad odors during fermentation, I didn't really have any. Just a very mild sulfur odor. I'm beginning to think it was temperature primarily, but what do I know? Your comments inspired me to give it another go and take another picture. As you can see...

I should add that I'm going to do the suggested SoCal-Doug test and let a bottle sit in the fridge for a week or two and compare with one that has mixed up trub. That's going in the fridge tomorrow, so it'll be a few weeks. The one above had only been in the fridge for 24 hours.

Update on this. I know it's only been about two weeks, but I opened a bottle earlier tonight. It looked liked the beer finally cleared in the bottle--took a lot longer than prior beers I made. I poured it into a glass in one pour so as not to disturb the sediment (which seems very soft...

Will do, and thanks. I agree that all my prior beers -- tasted at bottling -- were basically unpalatable. But they seemed to have 'potential' and they all lacked that overwhelming yeasty/ester taste this guy had. If it doesn't settle out, but is indeed merely a yeast bomb and not an...

I would say that's correct--the "Kristall" Wheat beers are the only ones I find remotely palatable, so that tells you where I fall in the Hefeweizen world...I would rather drink tap water. Thanks for the advice. I will definitely do what you suggest (assuming no bottle bombs between now and...

Thanks for the reply. I did rack it into a bottling bucket as I usually do--don't think I kicked up much/any trub. But I suspect the beer was murkier than usual (it was hard to tell, because it's a farily dark beer--but looking at it going through siphon hose, it looked cloudy). Will...

Hello All! Been reading the forums for quite a while, learned tons, thanks. Finally joined so I can post a question. Background: new brewer. Did some partials and more complicated stuff a few years back with a brewer friend, but now doing it solo. So far, only kits and extract . Done...