How impatient are you?

[dndlyon]

I've tried one in 2 days I think. I think it's good to see the difference that time makes, even with a pipeline.

Agreed! I taught a fermentations class at the college, but we were always given the recipe and limited in time to the class schedule. Now that I'm brewing on my own, I taste every chance I get just so I get a good understanding of what's going on during the process.

I bottled a Scottish Ale two weeks ago on Friday and am thinking of chilling and cracking a bottle this weekend. I don't expect it to be "good beer" yet, but I'm curious what the difference will be between the tasting at 3 weeks in primary and 2 weeks in the bottle.

I also do not have enough in the pipeline yet to be very patient!
*cheers*

 

[blizz81]

Depends on the beer. I usually like to try sometime after two weeks. If it's not a terribly complex/big beer, it's open season at that point.

 

[buzzkill]

Once you have been brewing for at least a dozen years you will know how your beer is doing, and you no longer feel the need to open one "just to see". You will have come to realize that you are just wasting a really good beer by drinking it before its time.

but if you enjoy drinking it,are you really wasting it?

more like after a dozen years of brewing you admit that you know how its coming along,and you just want to drink one.

 

[jonbomb]

whats this green beer everyones tallking about?? I know its got somethng to do with unfinished beer...

I tested a bottle of my first batch ever made yesterday after being bottled for a week and it tasted awesome...

 

[haplo]

I drank a pint of an IPA while bottling it. I'm hoping carbed and cold it will be my best brew yet.

 

[Hang Glider]

whats this green beer everyones tallking about?? I know its got somethng to do with unfinished beer...

I tested a bottle of my first batch ever made yesterday after being bottled for a week and it tasted awesome...

Wait a week, (two if you can stand it) then try another - awesome now, even better later! Now if it's an IPA, start your drinking at 3 weeks, but if it's an amber, brown, porter - give it a little more time. It really will be better. Some higher-alcohol beers have a perceptible 'hot' taste in the first week or three, but it all blends in.

 

[Mateo]

I always pour one, usually the last in the bottling bucket right into the mug and down one from there. Then after 4 days or so I will try one. I love to see how they progress. I wonder what they taste like after 20 days or so. Mine never last that long.

 

[EricT]

When I bottle I crack a bottle every week. When I keg, I'm drinking it after 3 days. I agree with GRhunter though, once the pipeline is strong it's alot easier to be patient.

 

[DrinkinSurfer]

I could only wait until the second day in the bottle before I cracked open a bottle from my first batch. It had some carbonation and was still green, but it was delicious none the less.

 

[captianoats]

When I started, it was all I could do to go 3 weeks from wort to drinking the first bottle. Now that I keg and have a pipeline, I can go a long time. I've had an IPA sitting in primary for 2 months, just check the airlock every now and then so it doesn't dry out