First brew tasting

[cykoduck]

Well after 2.5 weeks of bottle conditioning my AHS Northern Brown ale is drinkable...but not sure I'd buy it 2 times. Seems hotter then expected and a bit of the diactyl butteryness. I believe this might condition out with time though right?

In better news, my porter ready to go to secondary tasted wonderful in my FG testing today

 

[Priemus]

Time has a tendancy to heal things with regards to beer. 2.5 weeks is on the fresh side anyway.

 

[Revvy]

The three weeks at 70 we recommend is the minimum for normal grav beers to carb and condition, but beer's usually take longer for their flavor to come together.

Stouts and porters have taken me between 6 and 8 weeks to carb up..I have a 1.090 Belgian strong that took three months to carb up.

Everything you need to know about carbing and conditioning, can be found here Of Patience and Bottle Conditioning. With emphasis on the word, "patience."

One thing to thing about, don't use a secondary and leave your beer in primary for a month. You'll find a lot of issue that lead to off flavors dissapear when the yeast is left in contact with the beer.

Go read this. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/best-time-transfer-secondary-235978/#post2788046

 

[cykoduck]

Yeah ... it was really one of those "I want to see what a young beer tastes like" attitude. I'm happy to continue to stock my bottle backlog in the meantime.

Loving my new hobby

 

[TipsyDragon]

just curious what was your fermentation temp like?

 

[cykoduck]

definitely on the higher side of what I wanted...I had no way to control on my first brew, so I moved to a cooler with water. It was probably a little too variable with ambiant 69-74 and water bath half way submerged.

Since then I've bought a chest freezer and controller so hope to feel better on the current batch