thatjoshguy
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well I'm two months into my first brew. It looks beautiful (it's an Amber from an extract kit). It's clear, has a nice head on it, and carbonated well. The problem is it tastes bad.
To be honest there's not much of a beer flavor to it, and what flavor there is just doesn't seem right. I'm not a major beer drinker (wierd choice of hobby I know) but I know that this isn't what beer is supposed to taste like.
Once you get past the first bit and actually swallow, it hits you... This beer tastes like dish soap.
I read around and I think I know what happened. On my brew day I screwed up and poured EVERYTHING from the pot into the fermenting bucket, sediment and all. I realized what I had done the next day, when someone corrected me, and so I knew I had to rack to a secondary fermenter as soon as I could. Primary fermentation took 9 days, so all that time it sat on that gunk. I racked into a carboy for secondary and left it there for two and a half weeks. It's been bottled and in my basement for about 4 weeks now.
I've been sneaking a bottle each week to taste as the aging process does its work. I thought at first that what I was tasting was a "green" beer, but as the rest of the beer mellowed, the soapy taste remains.
My question is, can this batch be salvaged at all? Is there any hope that another two or three months of aging can fix this? I know this has happened to other people, what are your experiences with this?
To be honest there's not much of a beer flavor to it, and what flavor there is just doesn't seem right. I'm not a major beer drinker (wierd choice of hobby I know) but I know that this isn't what beer is supposed to taste like.
Once you get past the first bit and actually swallow, it hits you... This beer tastes like dish soap.
I read around and I think I know what happened. On my brew day I screwed up and poured EVERYTHING from the pot into the fermenting bucket, sediment and all. I realized what I had done the next day, when someone corrected me, and so I knew I had to rack to a secondary fermenter as soon as I could. Primary fermentation took 9 days, so all that time it sat on that gunk. I racked into a carboy for secondary and left it there for two and a half weeks. It's been bottled and in my basement for about 4 weeks now.
I've been sneaking a bottle each week to taste as the aging process does its work. I thought at first that what I was tasting was a "green" beer, but as the rest of the beer mellowed, the soapy taste remains.
My question is, can this batch be salvaged at all? Is there any hope that another two or three months of aging can fix this? I know this has happened to other people, what are your experiences with this?