I've been running into something that is driving me up the wall and i will admit it could just be lack of experience. I think overall i've made about 5 kits and 3 clone beer recipies. clone beer recipies (i'll leave the lager recipe out since it was a disaster and fermented way to high temp) seem to have had much more distinction to them. One was an Edelweiss Dunkel Weissbier that was my first attempt from a kit, that ended up being a great beer. The other two were Paulaner Hefe-Weizen clone, first was ok, second was way better when i used a better yeast and actually started monitoring the fermentation temp.
Watching the fermentation temp seemed to be the biggest thing that helped so obviously i've been making sure to watch that more with new brews.
But it seems all the kits come out and taste similar to each other, they all have their slight differences but they all have that similar flavor that say's, yep, i made that myself. my wife who hasn't had my home brew for a good year turned her head and asked if that was one of the beers i had made just from the smell. Dont' get me wrong it's not a bad smell, it's just a similar smell from brew to brew. I also should say that i do usually start drinking these within a month or 1.5 of bottling.
Since it's obvious i'm still very new at this hobby after just a few brews could someone tell me if this is standard. Do i need to leave the kits behind and move on, all my recipies have been extract. even the good recipies showed some of this similar flavor so i'm wondering if it's an extract thing and time to move up to a minimash (i've got no room or equipment for allgrain)
I'd appreciate any insight, if i need to wait a good 6 months for the right flavors to develop or something along those lines let me know. Thanks
Watching the fermentation temp seemed to be the biggest thing that helped so obviously i've been making sure to watch that more with new brews.
But it seems all the kits come out and taste similar to each other, they all have their slight differences but they all have that similar flavor that say's, yep, i made that myself. my wife who hasn't had my home brew for a good year turned her head and asked if that was one of the beers i had made just from the smell. Dont' get me wrong it's not a bad smell, it's just a similar smell from brew to brew. I also should say that i do usually start drinking these within a month or 1.5 of bottling.
Since it's obvious i'm still very new at this hobby after just a few brews could someone tell me if this is standard. Do i need to leave the kits behind and move on, all my recipies have been extract. even the good recipies showed some of this similar flavor so i'm wondering if it's an extract thing and time to move up to a minimash (i've got no room or equipment for allgrain)
I'd appreciate any insight, if i need to wait a good 6 months for the right flavors to develop or something along those lines let me know. Thanks