Fermented too warm, recovery?

[matt23]

Ok, I think I messed up big time. In summary, I think the beer was too warm when the yeast was added, has produced some off flavors, not sure if there's any way to recover, such as aging/mellowing a bit, or call it a lost cause and move on.

What I did was I brewed a Cream Ale that normally has worked out great, but this time I could only get the wort down to 90 F or so in the fermenter. I've used an Ale yeast in the past, realized it's a bit on the high end, but thought it still might be ok, had never done this before so maybe I was a little curious to see if the yeast could handle it, what would happen. A much stronger beer I've done in the past got to even higher temps during primary fermentation and still turned out good, thinking the higher alcohol compatible yeast helped.

What happened was within 2 minutes after the yeast was added, SafeAle US-05, the bubbling started vs normally this will take 6-12 hours. After 2 days it was done, after a week I kegged it as I was in a hurry to get a different batch started. It stayed kegged for two weeks before trying out but the results are some off-flavors or sourness added, vs normally the cream ale is very smooth, and with very little extra flavors added in the recipe, any differences like this are probably especially noticeable.

So, I'm thinking I might age it a while longer to see what happens but generally considering it a lost cause. Would be great to get any feedback or any way to recover if possible.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[mongoose33]

You could try dry-hopping it and see if that might mask the off-flavors. Or add some other kind of flavoring, maybe a fruit flavoring.

But for the most part, unless you're just dying to drink this up, I'd consider looking at it as a lesson learned and dumping it.

And buy a second fermenter so you don't have to juggle.

 

[jlinz]

May mellow with age. Although, most off flavors I've had generally stay
there. Maybe cook lots of brats?

 

[matt23]

Thanks, yeah, I figured I was pushing it a bit. I think I'd done about 20 batches in a row that worked out pretty good without the off-flavors, oh well.

 

[schematix]

dump it and do-over.

or drink it as punishment.