flavor question

[Jrbetz]

What would give my beer and cidery flavor???

 

[Jrbetz]

What would give my beer and cidery flavor???

And is there a way to fix it? Or just toss it?

 

[ScottG58]

Acetaldehyde gives beer a green apple flavor. I think it's an intermediate chemical produced by yeast. I have a batch fermented with Nottingham yeast that had a real strong green apple flavor. At two months in the bottle it is fading to where its drinkable. If I had more patience, I would not have consumed so much beer that tasted questionable.

 

[Jrbetz]

Acetaldehyde gives beer a green apple flavor. I think it's an intermediate chemical produced by yeast. I have a batch fermented with Nottingham yeast that had a real strong green apple flavor. At two months in the bottle it is fading to where its drinkable. If I had more patience, I would not have consumed so much beer that tasted questionable.

So bottle as normal and give it time?

 

[helibrewer]

What would give my beer and cidery flavor???

What was your recipe?

 

[ScottG58]

Depends. What was original gravity? Has final gravity remained the same for three days? How long has it been in primary? Has it cleared? Mine had not cleared and I force cleared it with fining. I think I did not give the yeast time to do its stuff

 

[Jrbetz]

Depends. What was original gravity? Has final gravity remained the same for three days? How long has it been in primary? Has it cleared? Mine had not cleared and I force cleared it with fining. I think I did not give the yeast time to do its stuff

OG was 1.054 and FG is 1.012, it has not cleared yet still a lot of particles in it and it's been in primary for 2 weeks today

 

[unionrdr]

Give it another week! Sounds like the brew is at FG,so give it that week to clean up by products of fermentation & settle out clear or slightly misty. It cleans up & settles out at the same time in my observations thus far. At this point,some of that cidery flavor will settle out. A bit more aging in the bottles. If it's not to strong,it can age out. Otherwise,it'll become more subdued. Too much sugar in the recipe is sited as one reason. I think high initial ferment temps produce some of this as well,since acetaldahide is a yeast by product anyway. The high temps just seem to make more of it.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

give it another week, and then give it a good 3 - 4 weeks in the bottle.

it should mellow

 

[Yooper]

There are several causes of "cider" flavor. Some will age out a bit, others will not.

One very common cause is a poor quality yeast (notably Cooper's) and a too-warm fermentation temperature. Simple sugars, along with a too-warm fermentation temperature make it worse. That may mellow a bit, but not much. A fix for that would be for the next batch to keep the beer cooler and use a better quality yeast.

One cause that should condition our is acetaldehyde, as mentioned. That's simply "young" beer.

 

[Jrbetz]

I will let it go for another couple weeks. Thank you guys for all the great advice!