joe91620
New Member
Hello All,
First, some background! I just recently started homebrewing, and so far it's been great. I picked up a standard two bucket kit from my LHBS, as well as a Better Bottle and two beer kits (Brewer's Best brands). The first beer I brewed was an Irish Stout, which wildly exceeded my expectations. The second beer I brewed was an Oktoberfest lager, which had a fairly strong sherry-like aftertaste that I noticed while bottling it. Reading up on off-flavors tells me that the likely culprit is oxygenation. I did splash the wort when transferring it to the primary, as I've read you should, but I did my best to siphon it smoothly from the primary into the Better Bottle secondary (manual siphon). So what I'm looking for here would be some advice on how to avoid this in the future. Will such off flavors be a bit muted after a bit of bottle conditioning? Could there potentially be another culprit to this taste?
Thanks!
Joe

First, some background! I just recently started homebrewing, and so far it's been great. I picked up a standard two bucket kit from my LHBS, as well as a Better Bottle and two beer kits (Brewer's Best brands). The first beer I brewed was an Irish Stout, which wildly exceeded my expectations. The second beer I brewed was an Oktoberfest lager, which had a fairly strong sherry-like aftertaste that I noticed while bottling it. Reading up on off-flavors tells me that the likely culprit is oxygenation. I did splash the wort when transferring it to the primary, as I've read you should, but I did my best to siphon it smoothly from the primary into the Better Bottle secondary (manual siphon). So what I'm looking for here would be some advice on how to avoid this in the future. Will such off flavors be a bit muted after a bit of bottle conditioning? Could there potentially be another culprit to this taste?
Thanks!
Joe
