Blue Moon clone has strong fruity bite

[Logzor]

I brewed a Blue Moon clone awhile back, it's been in bottles for about 4 weeks now, it fermented for 3 weeks.

The first couple sips have this strong fruity off-flavor bite to it. If I let the beer sit for about 5 minutes before taking a sip this flavor tends to fade away.

What could potentially be causing this? The fermentation temp shouldn't have gone above 72 on this brew. So I don't think high temps cause the problem.

I'm thinking maybe something was goofy with the spice packet.

Anyways I enjoy drinking this beer I just want to figure out what's causing the weird initial flavor.

 

[TayWhyte]

What yeast did you use?

 

[Logzor]

It was one of the smack-packs, I can't remember which one it was.

 

[spokaniac]

Have one sitting in primary now, will be interested in hearing what you are able to figure out. What recipe/yeast did you use? I brewed the AHS extract kit with the WLP400.

 

[TayWhyte]

It was one of the smack-packs, I can't remember which one it was.

Blue Moon uses a neutral yeast like WYeast 1056. Did you get your yeast as part of a kit? If so it may have been a belgian yeast. That will definitely give you a "fruity bite".

Don't know if you have but this is a great thread and one of the original brewers of BlueMoon at Coors discusses it
Wayne1 I believe was his name.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/blue-moon-clone-65328/