Bitter taste after bottling

[Thicki]

Hi,

I have brewed 2 batches now and I bottled with sugar for carbonation.

The beers were APA and IPA. Both tasted fine before bottling but after bottling and carbonation the beer has a very bitter taste.

I used bottle priming calculator to measure the amount to be used. I used table sugar dissolved in 300ml of water.

Is it possible that the beer gets this bitter taste from the sugar formula that was added to the batch at bottling or might there be another problem?

 

[mrgrimm101]

Is it overly bitter, compared to other APAs and IPAs? They are quite bitter styles, although I'm sure you know that.

How much sugar did you use? I use about 3.25-3.5 oz for my IPAs. I've used online calculators before and it says to shoot for about 4 oz but I always fear overcarbonation so I go slightly under that. And I don't know if there is much difference, but I buy dextrose (corn sugar) from my LHBS and use that, as opposed to sucrose (table sugar).

 

[Thicki]

Thanks for the quick answer.

This is the wrong kind of bitter. I took some aside before bottling when I made the IPA and it was rather good tasting. But now from the bottles there is a very bitter taste, like something is very wrong

I used about 4 oz of sugar.

 

[mrgrimm101]

Hmmm I'm sure there's something that happened to give it this quality.

How meticulous are you with your cleansing and sanitizing procedures?

Here are a couple sites with descriptions of different off-flavors and their causes:

http://morebeer.com/content/homebrew-off-flavors

http://www.howtobrew.com/section4/chapter21-2.html

Hope that helps some.

 

[beavers]

Recently bottled a Gumballhead clone, and it tasted and smelled fantastic going into the bottles. After 3 weeks of carbing at about 67F, all the aroma was gone and I swear it tasted like a saison or a really yeasty/funky wheat. Another two weeks and it's only gotten worse, and is borderline undrinkable. I'm thinking it's an infection, either some manner of funky bacteria, or possibly a wild yeast. Still working on tracking down the source.

Bottling bucket is fairly new and kept spotlessly clean, no scratches. Could be scratches on the inside of the racking cane. Might also be an old batch of Star San I've had mixed up for about 6 weeks. I test the pH every time I use it, but with cheap pH strips so now I'm doubting their accuracy and thinking the sanitizer may not have been viable. I'm priming with table sugar, which gets gently boiled for about 15 minutes immediately beforehand.

Anyway, hope this provides some food for thought, and I'm curious to see what you determine about your situation.

 

[Thicki]

Thanks for the response.

My second thought was that there might have been a bacteria or something like that. I think I will look into that next because I see no other reason why this is happening. I'm also looking into making the next batch a beer that has less hops and maybe change the fermenting bucket.

I cleaned everything as much as possible and everything was according to recipe. Maybe there is something I overlooked in that process.

Thanks for the help, I definitely have some idea what might be the problem here.