Caibou Slobber Taste Test

[herricane]

Hated to ask this on the forum since I'm so new and not sure if anyone else had already asked but here goes.

We bottled our first ever home brew on Sunday and were surprised that there really wasn't much flavor at all. We are not sure how much taste activity we should expect while it conditions in the bottles over the next 4 weeks. Will the flavor really kick in during this period?

We only did the single stage fermentation (3 weeks) if that matters.

Thank you!!!

 

[sputnam]

my experience with that beer was----(extract) bland, watery, boring at 3 weeks to awesome as crap in the 4th week. (AG) - same thing except it didn't get good until 5th or 6th week. IMO, extract was much better than AG

 

[Brewsncrabs]

Give it time and next time use Wyeast Dennys 1450 and 1/2lb oats (can you do that using extract?). Awesome!

 

[Psylocide]

Give it time and next time use Wyeast Dennys 1450 and 1/2lb oats (can you do that using extract?). Awesome!

Partial mash w/oats? Sure you could.

 

[eadavis80]

It should have some definite flavor at bottling time, but pretty much all beer will really improve over the course of at least 3, if not 4 or more, weeks in the bottle. My second batch of that brew was bottled Sunday. Mine tasted really good at bottling. I gave it 2 weeks in primary and 2 more in secondary this time around.