Extract beers

[foley178]

My last three beers have tasted like straight wheat after taste and it's getting frustrating. Idk what I'm doing wrong. Some have been speciality brews with grain and some straight extract

 

[flars]

Need some details of your brewing process and the recipe to help you out. Also what is your timeline from pitching the yeast to bottling?

 

[chickypad]

Like flars said we need more info - recipes, fermentation temp and schedule, etc. Also can you explain what you mean by wheat aftertaste? Do you mean kind of grainy, or are you referring to a German hefeweizen like taste - i.e. phenolic or banana flavors?

 

[foley178]

Brewed for 30 mins. It was a quick brew from Midwest supplies. It's been in bottle 10 days and fridged 3. I was just trying to test it came out really Carbed but when I drank it tasted like a wheaty taste. And the more I drank the more of the taste I think was coming from the yeast after tones but I'm not too sure

 

[Lefou]

My first extract brew used Cooper's pre-hopped light lager LME and some wheat LME. After fermenting two weeks, I bottled at room temps around 65F for a week or two. It had a "green" taste and was carbed OK, but I decided to let it go for a whole month before drinking. The 'green" taste subsided and it was actually fairly drinkable.

 

[figgnewton]

show the recipe and would be a little easier to tell what may have went wrong

 

[Sailingeric]

I did extract brewing for about a year and my experience was beer at about a week after bottling was decent but not carbed much. Weeks two to 6 was "on my god, where did I go wrong." Then after that they got better with aging. Once you get a pipeline going and your beers can age you will find that they will come out very tasty!

 

[dmtaylor]

Is it hazy? Is there still yeast in the beer? Could be a yeast flavor. To know the difference: Taste some plain white flour by itself. That's wheat. Then taste a slice of plain white bread (like Wonder Bread). That's actually way more of a yeast flavor than a wheat flavor. Also I wonder if you might be tasting more of a dough flavor, which is also usually a yeast flavor and not a grain flavor. So...

Does your beer taste more like plain flour (the wheat itself), or like bread or dough (yeast)?

 

[foley178]

Yes noticed some hazy. And it's a wheaty taste but after smelling it seems like the yeast the beer maybe a little green. I'll try another one tomorrow

 

[skraeling]

Brewed for 30 mins. It was a quick brew from Midwest supplies. It's been in bottle 10 days and fridged 3. I was just trying to test it came out really Carbed but when I drank it tasted like a wheaty taste. And the more I drank the more of the taste I think was coming from the yeast after tones but I'm not too sure

How long did it sit in primary fermentation? Temps of that?

 

[foley178]

How long did it sit in primary fermentation? Temps of that?

14 days at approximately 72 degrees