I found Beer!!

[short_bus_rider]

Hi everyone I found a beer I brewed in May of last year! Somehow I forgot about it. Now I have a question, is it still good to bottle? If so is there anything extra I have to do before bottling? Thanks for any help.

Oh yeah it's a wheat ale (Midwest Boundary waters kit)

O.G. 1.043

5 gal. batch

If that info helps

 

[jonmohno]

Primary? Not shure autolyized yeast now? Or it could be great. First thing I would do before hand is smell and taste it. Did the airlock dry out?

 

[short_bus_rider]

Yes the air lock did dry out. Right now i'm cleaning and sanitizing my thief for a reading and a taste.

 

[cbrewcrew]

Hmmmm.....I'm intrigued.

 

[IPA-Hole]

Oh yeah! A potential serendipitous science project. Me like! Do let us know how it turned out....btw, how did you "forget" about this beer?

 

[ScotBrew]

Bottle it. If you dump it you'll never know if it was a good beer or not!

If it turns out crap then you've only wasted the time to bottle it and a little bit of priming sugar.

 

[short_bus_rider]

Well to make a long story short, my girl left around the end of may my kids move in with me in June and between softball games and Tae Kwon Do tournaments for my daughter and Tae Kwon Do tournaments for my son, my hobbies where put on hold while my life got back in order. Now that everything is working out I have sometime to get back into things went into my closet to get a kit I got for Christmas needed my fermenter and it was look at what I found.

 

[short_bus_rider]

Well took a sample. F.G. is 1.000 tastes a little off can't explain it. took another sample further down same F.G. but very cloudy and almost smells like a band aid didn't taste due to how cloudy it was. What you guys think?

 

[freisste]

Well took a sample. F.G. is 1.000 tastes a little off can't explain it. took another sample further down same F.G. but very cloudy and almost smells like a band aid didn't taste due to how cloudy it was. What you guys think?

It won't hurt you to taste it. Sometimes beer smells like @$$ but tastes good, sometimes vice versa. But the point if brewing is to get something that tastes good, so you kind of have to bite the bullet and taste it.

Or dump it and never know. You would always wonder, though...for the rest of your life.

 

[Gar]

bottle it or rack it to another carboy and put the souring bugs to it or freeze condense it. but what ever you do only pour it out when there is nothing can be done to it. way to much beer going down the drain from what ive saw posted on the forums. you may come up with something you like alot

 

[kylevester]

Agreed on that it won't hurt to taste it.

However, with the plasticky or band-aid smell or taste, that indicates a not good type of infection. Couple that with a gravity at 1.000 and there may be no rescuing this with some souring bugs. The band-aid flavor/aroma comes from phenols and is not part of the good souring. Maybe if you add some sugar with souring bugs it'll mask it, but you may just give fuel to the bugs already in there.

 

[Gar]

Have you tried it yet?

 

[thecad]

Drink it!

I'm in a similar spot. just fund a beer that had been left in a carboy for atleast 9 months maybe up to a year. Bottled the sucker and gave it a try. Tastes a little weird, but haven't gone blind yet. I call it the beer of the anicents.

 

[Gar]

So how did it turn out?