Cloudy and odd taste

[vgentile]

Brewed a Belgian Blonde 3 weeks ago all grain 9lbs Pilsner 2lbs Aromatic and added .5lb of Pale Wheat malt, pitched WLP550, I have brewed this before and the only change was the .5lb of Pale Wheat. Last time it fermented in 7 days racked and cold crashed in the cellar for 3 days and bottled turned out great. This time I used Wyeast Belgian Ardennes 3522. Smack pack never swelled pitched anyway and after 20hrs no yeast activity its now a late Sunday morning and a local supply shop is open and I get WLP550 and pitch it and I have vigorous fermentation in 8 hours fermentation goes just like prior and I cold crash for 3 days brew look fairly clear so I bottle adding corn sugar to prime and the warm bottle age. Now after 1 week test bottle smells good but tastes kind of funky off flavors and brew is cloudy. I have warm aged 2 weeks now and now I am bottle aging at 45F in the cellar. Is there hope for this batch?

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

of course there is.... you fermented it for a week and now it's only been bottled 2 weeks? it's still way young, green beer. RDWHAHB..... and welcome to HBT!

 

[BigRob]

20 Hours is also not out of the ordinary for fermentation to start. I'd say the biggest change you made was fermenting this beer with two different yeasts, not to mention 3 weeks to be drinking seems quite young, especially since it's bottled not kegged.

 

[vgentile]

I'm not sure the Wyeast ever took off the smack pack did not swell, though I have wondered if 2 similar yeast could work at the same time and what the end result would be.

 

[BigRob]

My package of Wyeast 1214 never swelled either, but it fermented just fine.
You can definitely ferment with more than one yeast at a time, you'll probably end up with a beer that you love, and spend the rest of your brewing life trying to replicate