IPA has excessive carbination and it's thin

[dgoldb1]

I brewed and IPA kit last November. It was ready around the first of this year. I saved a bottle and I just had the last one. The difference between the first bottle and the last was like night and day. The first bottle I had around Jan 1 of this year had lots of body, hop aroma, and a good amount of residual sweetness. The bottle I just tried was overly bitter, thin and had no body, and had so much foam that it took about 15 minutes to pour it into a pint glass. What gives?

I understand the hop aroma dissipating over the past 4 months, but what’s with the carbonation and thin body?

 

[lumpher]

depends on where it came from when you were bottling it. if it came from the top, and you didn't mix it really good, that could cause both

 

[dgoldb1]

All the other bottles were fine. I think it has something to do with letting it age. My FG was a bit high at 1020. Could that have something to do with it?

 

[Shift]

Maybe you got some slow wild yeast in there when bottling, and in this bottle it had time to ferment? Eating up the body and producing more CO2.
Could've checked the OG again to rule that out, but i guess that train has gone.

 

[Homercidal]

Sounds like an infection to me. Loss of sweetness, gushing, thin, astringency...

Check that bottles are cleaned WELL, and that your bottling bucket spigot is cleaned. It might make sense to simply replace the spigot and hose, etc.

If the beers seemed to all go downhill over time, it could be an infection in the plastic bottling equipment. If it's just one or two bottles here and there, it's likely the bottles didn't get cleaned well.

 

[dgoldb1]

I'm hoping it was just that last bottle. I had a bottle last week and it didnt seem that thin. This was the first time I had used that bottling bucket so I don't think it could have been something festering in the spigot. Just to be safe, do you think I can disassemable it and put it in the dishwasher on a sterilize cycle?

 

[sgillespie]

I think overcarbonation can make a beer seem a little thin. I would just be careful to sanitize well on your next batch, and carbonate a bit less. If it happens again, then go ahead and replace your tubing.

 

[ayoungrad]

My money is on imcomplete carbonation fermentation. I routinely taste beers every week after I bottle. They get less sweet and more carbonated with time. This makes sense because there is still unfermented priming sugar early on. And there is also less carbonation which will, in itself, cause a decrease in sweetness. (This all assumes you let the initial fermentation complete).

And keep in mind that if you put bottles in the frig you will truncate bottle priming fermentation and you will have unfermented priming sugar if you did not allow carbonation to complete it's course.

 

[EoinMag]

Too many rifles is a bad thing in a beer, drink too many of them and there's a danger you'll shoot your mouth off.....


I'll get my coat.....