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[umbergbr]

Hello first time brewer and I have got a question. I am brewing an extract kit with white labs 320 yeast. After the boil in which I did a full 5 gallon boil I tasted the Cooled wort after taking the gravity reading 1.050 and it was really bitter. After 3 days in the fermenter to see if it kicked off I got a gravity reading of about 1.024 supposed to finish at 1.014. The thing is it still tasted bitter. Is that normal? Will it mellow out? It is supposed to be a wheat beer and it taste nothing like it.

 

[kapbrew13]

How much hops and when where they added? Don't touch primary for 2-3 weeks. No need to rush.

 

[MedicMang]

Finished beer tastes nothing like what you pulled from the fermenter. Quit buggin it. I'm sure everything will come out great. It's probably because the yeast is in suspension and its kickin up all of the hops you used.

 

[umbergbr]

I used 1 oz sterling for 45 mins and 1 oz of palisades for 2 mins. I guess I am just being a noob.

 

[rgarry]

I don't touch the primary for a month. Sure I have a stock and that helps but let it do its thing. You are on this site so you are ahead of most.

 

[BlackGoat]

yeah, just leave it alone - its always going to have harsh flavors when its extremely green as it is now. Let the fermentation do its thing and all the flavors will mellow. After a few brews you learn to sort of cut through the green beer flavor when tasting early gravity samples to have a rough idea of how it will turn out when its done. But, don't think that it will turn out that way just because it tastes bitter now.

 

[Cyclman]

Green beer has lots of not nice flavors. Taste always gets better as it ferments, ages, and conditions.

Patience is the hardest thing in brewing.

 

[kapbrew13]

Green beer has lots of not nice flavors. Taste always gets better as it ferments, ages, and conditions.

Patience is the hardest thing in brewing.

Not true if you get enough brews rotating. Brew more and stockpile for the apocalypse