BeeGeeBrew
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I just brewed a marris otter centennial smash and finally kegged a couple days ago. I dry hopped it for 2.5 days with 0.5 oz and I tasted a sample from the fermentor and it tasted like straight grass. I could see hop particles in the hydrometer tube so I figured that was it. I filtered them out with a coffee filter and tasted again....GRASS is all I taste. I cold crashed it for about a day and a half before kegging hoping that would help. Kegged it last night, and I took a sample today so the beer had been chilled in the keg for about 18 hours. There was some small hop particles still in the glass, the beer was very cloudy, and still very grassy.
How the hell did I get all this grass with only a 1/2 oz dry hop for 2 days? I dry hopped my amber ale for 2 days with a whole oz of cascade and even the sample straight from the fermentor wasn't grassy at all. What gives?
I tasted again today (about 3 days in the keg now) and the grass did seem SLIGHTLY less prevalent and the beer was much clearer, maybe even a grapefruit like quality, but still not appealing by any means too overpowering. I let my wife taste it and she says it taste like if you ate potpourri???
I did post this on a Reddit thread and people seemed to think my hops may have been oxidized. I then remembered squeezing the hop bag before opening and air came out like there was a pin hole in the bag, and the hops smelled a little funky to me when I brewed, but since I'm a beginner I thought maybe Centennial just smelled like that.
Is that batch worth trying to save? Will oxidized hops just ruin the beer totally?
How the hell did I get all this grass with only a 1/2 oz dry hop for 2 days? I dry hopped my amber ale for 2 days with a whole oz of cascade and even the sample straight from the fermentor wasn't grassy at all. What gives?
I tasted again today (about 3 days in the keg now) and the grass did seem SLIGHTLY less prevalent and the beer was much clearer, maybe even a grapefruit like quality, but still not appealing by any means too overpowering. I let my wife taste it and she says it taste like if you ate potpourri???
I did post this on a Reddit thread and people seemed to think my hops may have been oxidized. I then remembered squeezing the hop bag before opening and air came out like there was a pin hole in the bag, and the hops smelled a little funky to me when I brewed, but since I'm a beginner I thought maybe Centennial just smelled like that.
Is that batch worth trying to save? Will oxidized hops just ruin the beer totally?