Honey ale, why are you such a jerk to me?

[GuyBob]

Subscribed. I brewed my version of a honey ale 4 weeks ago. I used 8 oz Carapils, 3.3 lbs golden LME, 4lbs of wild flower honey, 1tbsp cinnamon and 2 oz of hops. Added bittering hops at 60 mins. 3# honey at 30. Then at flame out added 1 extra lbs of honey, cinnamon, and 1 oz hops. Added dry s-05 and fermented at 64 degrees for 2 weeks. Cold crashed 2 days and bottled for 2 weeks. Smelled very sour when bottling. Tried at 1 week in bottle and had a very sour pungent taste at end. 2 weeks in and totally changed. Nice spice flavor up front and honey flavor in back now. Unbelievable how much it changed. I would say honey beers take some time to condition giving the ingrediants. Leave it bottle as long as possible and keep trying week to week and see if it changes. I would say this may have fermented too warm causing a off flavor. Just my ..02 cents. Good luck. Here's mine

 

[MrJames]

Wow, that looks great!!

 

[DarkMerosier]

So I broke out one of the old bottles this past weekend, just out of curiosity. This time, it tasted like an apple juice. This is the strangest beer I've made, it just seems to defy all expectations and gets weirder as it ages. I am considering trying this recipe again, to see what another batch is like. From sour weird flavor, to champagne flavor, to an apple juice like flavor... bizarre.

 

[Happywanderer]

I have brewed with honey and brewed a honey brown today. Last honey red I made was my best beer ever. This honey brown already promises to be better.

I'd say you got a weird bug.


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