I burned my wort :(

[DoubleAught]

Noticed black flakes during the boil, so I strained all 5 gallons through cheese cloth to keep the flakes from going into the primary. I tried tasting it to see if it altered the final product and couldn't really taste anything burnt. I guess we'll wait and see how it turns out. Cleaning the pot was the hardest part of it all

 

[jhorgan1]

Ouch :/ thats rough. Were you doing extract or AG? Also what size pot were you using for the boil?

 

[DoubleAught]

Ouch :/ thats rough. Were you doing extract or AG? Also what size pot were you using for the boil?

11 Gallon pot doing a BIAB. I didn't stir the wort after mashout and cranked the heat up to get to the boil. Simple mistake, but one I'll never make again.

 

[tknice]

Yeah, I had a scorch mark on the bottom of my kettle the size of a softball once. It took bartenders friend and about 45 minutes of elbow grease to get it off. Now that I've been putting a canning rack on the bottom during the mash, no more scorching.

Look at the bright side, your beer may end up with a nice smokey flavor that will be great and hard to reproduce!

 

[DoubleAught]

Yeah, I had a scorch mark on the bottom of my kettle the size of a softball once. It took bartenders friend and about 45 minutes of elbow grease to get it off. Now that I've been putting a canning rack on the bottom during the mash, no more scorching. Not sure what the cause of your's was.

Look at the bright side, your beer may end up with a nice smokey flavor that will be great and hard to reproduce!

lol...I have a sore shoulder from all the scrubbing Did your beer turn out ok?

 

[tknice]

Yep, turned out great and I didn't notice a thing.

 

[DoubleAught]

Yep, turned out great and I didn't notice a thing.

Good to know! Helps with riding this one out!

 

[DoubleAught]

Looks like I may have dodged the bullet. This one's been violently fermenting for 4 days now. It was fermenting so hard that it looked like it was stirring itself! My wife even noticed how hard it was working. It went from 1.080 to 1.018 and I decided to taste it to see of I could detect the burned taste. Luckily I tasted nothing burned, smokey, or anything! I'm pretty happy about it.

 

[tknice]

perfect!

 

[DoubleAught]

I'm a little concern now. After a month in the primary it now has an "off taste" to it. It's hard to describe but burned rubber is what comes to mind when I taste it. This taste wasn't detectable until the last week or so. Could this be from scorching the wort even though I didn't have the taste for the first few weeks?

I'm baffled, anyone brewed NB's Strong Golden Ale AG kit that can give me an idea on what it tasted like?

 

[jordanmills]

Yep, turned out great and I didn't notice a thing.

Same here. Scorched some syrup on my dunkelweisen, and after two weeks of fermenting there is zero scorch taste.

 

[LKABrewer]

Even if you did not taste the burnt taste earlier, as the beer mellows any off flavors can become more pronounced.

 

[DoubleAught]

Even if you did not taste the burnt taste earlier, as the beer mellows any off flavors can become more pronounced.

Thats what I was afraid of. If the taste is still there when it comes time to bottle then it'll be dump city.

 

[motobrewer]

buddy was using my kettle once - he burned the sh*t out of an irish red.

turned out really good. I was mashing while he was boiling, so the mash had to sit a good hour so he could scrub the kettle clean, lol

 

[DoubleAught]

buddy was using my kettle once - he burned the sh*t out of an irish red.

turned out really good. I was mashing while he was boiling, so the mash had to sit a good hour so he could scrub the kettle clean, lol

I wish I could be so lucky. Just put some finings in it but doubt it'll do anything for the taste. We'll see!