ChshreCat
Well-Known Member
I tried the first bottle of my first brew after 3 weeks. After reading some posts on here about people rushing things, I figured I was doing really good waiting a full three weeks.
I was unimpressed. It was drinkable, but not really a good beer. Too sweet. Not enough hops. Not enough bitter. I chalked it up to my first try and figured I'd move on from there.
So, a friend of mine at work wanted to try it so I brought him a couple bottles. He popped them in his fridge and tried one a few days later.
He said he didn't taste anything like I described. Not the greatest beer he'd ever had but he thought it was a good brown ale.
So I popped a few more in the fridge at home and tried one.
It was pretty good! The sweetness was gone away. A little nutty flavor was coming out.
My friend and I have been having one every few days to a week and it just keeps getting better! A roasty flavor has joined the nutty flavor now and the whole package just tastes better with each bottle I open.
Know, I'd read on here that it'll improve with time, but you just don't really believe it until you taste the difference as the beer ages.
Anyway, if you don't like what you get in the first bottle, try not to feel too bad or freak out. Wait a couple weeks. Then wait a month. Then give it another. It gets better. They were right.
You just can't recognize what "green" tastes like until you taste your beer at 3 weeks and taste it again at 2 months.
I love this beer now.
I was unimpressed. It was drinkable, but not really a good beer. Too sweet. Not enough hops. Not enough bitter. I chalked it up to my first try and figured I'd move on from there.
So, a friend of mine at work wanted to try it so I brought him a couple bottles. He popped them in his fridge and tried one a few days later.
He said he didn't taste anything like I described. Not the greatest beer he'd ever had but he thought it was a good brown ale.
So I popped a few more in the fridge at home and tried one.
It was pretty good! The sweetness was gone away. A little nutty flavor was coming out.
My friend and I have been having one every few days to a week and it just keeps getting better! A roasty flavor has joined the nutty flavor now and the whole package just tastes better with each bottle I open.
Know, I'd read on here that it'll improve with time, but you just don't really believe it until you taste the difference as the beer ages.
Anyway, if you don't like what you get in the first bottle, try not to feel too bad or freak out. Wait a couple weeks. Then wait a month. Then give it another. It gets better. They were right.
You just can't recognize what "green" tastes like until you taste your beer at 3 weeks and taste it again at 2 months.
I love this beer now.
