I made a English Gold Ale and it does not taste good.

[potseeslc]

I have been brewing for a while and I have to say this beer did not turn out.

Recipe:

10lbs of Golden Promise
.25 Chrystal 120

Mashed at 153 60 min

US goldings .5 for 60 min
.5 for 15
.5 dryhop

Us04 yeast

It just has a very flowery kind of floral but strong flavor and does not taste good.

I used the London water profile in Bruin-water and built it from distilled water.

I really want a British Gold Ale but this was not the road to go. What would you use?

 

[yugga]

S-04 is a yeast I won't use anymore. Some people swear by it, but with a google search you'll see that others like myself can't stand it. Have you used s-04 before?

 

[BigEd]

WTF is a British "Gold" ale? Please elaborate on the phrase "does not taste good". The base malt is excellent, the yeast not my choice but not awful, although the hops look out of ratio to the amount of malt, and the 120 "chrystal" seems out of place.

 

[Gravity]

Theres not enough information or measurements pre/post boil to give you usable advice.

I wouldn't blame 04 for flavorless beer its probably the amount of hops you added, you went light

I would have done an ounce of EKG at each addition and maybe not dry hopped

What is an English Golden Ale?

 

[rhys333]

I have been brewing for a while and I have to say this beer did not turn out.

Recipe:

10lbs of Golden Promise
.25 Chrystal 120

Mashed at 153 60 min

US goldings .5 for 60 min
.5 for 15
.5 dryhop

Us04 yeast

It just has a very flowery kind of floral but strong flavor and does not taste good.

I used the London water profile in Bruin-water and built it from distilled water.

I really want a British Gold Ale but this was not the road to go. What would you use?

Can you give us a few more pointers on what you don't like about your beer? It could be anything from process, to ingredients or water chemistry. We might be able to help get it back on track for you.

If you added a lot of baking soda to match the London profile, you might have ended up with sky high mash pH.

 

[Yooper]

What is the "London" profile, and how did you get there (that is, what did you add)?