zgreenside
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So as the title suggests, I have what I believe is a green taste to my beer, but I've never had a beer turn out green before (at least that I noticed) so I'm not exactly sure that's what's happening or if I messed up.
I made a Porter, second time I've made the recipe, but I tweaked it slightly to adjust it more to where I wanted it to be.
The difference this time was that the HBS didn't have leaf, so I used pellet hops, and I don't filter my beer going into the fermenter, so all the pellet gunk goes to the bottom (which I've done before in my extract brewing days, but never noticed strong hop flavor due to it).
Beer fermented 1/18 - 1/24, moved to garage for cold crash in primary (don't swap to secondary any more) and left there until last night.
OG 1.058
FG 1.017
Which is what I expected.
I force carbed the beer and then took a sample, and the smell right away smells like when you open up the bag of pellet hops and take a big whiff, and you get a strong flavor of those hops as well. It's not overwhelming, it's not like an IPA flavor or smells, it's literally like the bag of pellets before they go in. I'm assuming that it's just because I didn't strain out the pellet gunk, and that some time in the keg will let it mellow out, but hoping for a little reassurance on that
It's not a bad beer by any means, it's actually really good, I just want to be able to submit it to a competition that's coming up (have to have the bottles submitted by 2/8, tasted on 2/16) so I'm worried that either A) The smell/flavor won't subside in time or B) The smell/flavor won't go away at all. I just don't want to submit something that I feel isn't right and definitely could be better.
Hoping my Milk Stout doesn't suffer the same consequence as this porter, since I did the same thing with pellet hops rather than leaf x.x
I made a Porter, second time I've made the recipe, but I tweaked it slightly to adjust it more to where I wanted it to be.
The difference this time was that the HBS didn't have leaf, so I used pellet hops, and I don't filter my beer going into the fermenter, so all the pellet gunk goes to the bottom (which I've done before in my extract brewing days, but never noticed strong hop flavor due to it).
Beer fermented 1/18 - 1/24, moved to garage for cold crash in primary (don't swap to secondary any more) and left there until last night.
OG 1.058
FG 1.017
Which is what I expected.
I force carbed the beer and then took a sample, and the smell right away smells like when you open up the bag of pellet hops and take a big whiff, and you get a strong flavor of those hops as well. It's not overwhelming, it's not like an IPA flavor or smells, it's literally like the bag of pellets before they go in. I'm assuming that it's just because I didn't strain out the pellet gunk, and that some time in the keg will let it mellow out, but hoping for a little reassurance on that
It's not a bad beer by any means, it's actually really good, I just want to be able to submit it to a competition that's coming up (have to have the bottles submitted by 2/8, tasted on 2/16) so I'm worried that either A) The smell/flavor won't subside in time or B) The smell/flavor won't go away at all. I just don't want to submit something that I feel isn't right and definitely could be better.
Hoping my Milk Stout doesn't suffer the same consequence as this porter, since I did the same thing with pellet hops rather than leaf x.x