I have been brewing for some time now but I had to stop completely for 8 months because temporarily I moved to an apartment, now I am back to a house so I want to start again.
Before moving I did three batches to have homebrew in my apartment...the thing is all the three ones started developing off flavours after some weeks of bottled. I usually try one of my beers at 2 weeks of bottled, 3 weeks and then I start drinking at 4 weeks.
All of them followed the same pattern, at 2 weeks they tasted green but promising, at 3 they felt like close to ready, at 4 weeks they started tasting off... at week 5 one was gushing and all of them had a bad flavour(the one less hopped specially)... at week 7 all of them were gushing and had an off flavour that made them undrinkable also the foam is very strange, it is extremely thick(I know thick foam is a good thing, but this one resembles yoghurt).
This sounds like an infection, right? What do you recommend me? cleaning everything with bleach? Change tubes?
It started so slow that I think it might be related to the bottling process (I do long primary, no secondary) but I am not an expert... is it possible that it started before?
Before moving I did three batches to have homebrew in my apartment...the thing is all the three ones started developing off flavours after some weeks of bottled. I usually try one of my beers at 2 weeks of bottled, 3 weeks and then I start drinking at 4 weeks.
All of them followed the same pattern, at 2 weeks they tasted green but promising, at 3 they felt like close to ready, at 4 weeks they started tasting off... at week 5 one was gushing and all of them had a bad flavour(the one less hopped specially)... at week 7 all of them were gushing and had an off flavour that made them undrinkable also the foam is very strange, it is extremely thick(I know thick foam is a good thing, but this one resembles yoghurt).
This sounds like an infection, right? What do you recommend me? cleaning everything with bleach? Change tubes?
It started so slow that I think it might be related to the bottling process (I do long primary, no secondary) but I am not an expert... is it possible that it started before?