It taste like beer

[Jim Gamble]

Well, my first attempt at beer making and it taste like flat beer. That's a good thing, right? I acctually didn't think it would turn out. So now I'm getting ready to carbonate. Will keep the forum updated on its progress.

 

[pshankstar]

Congrats on your first attempt. Let them carbonate for a good two weeks then crack open a bottle. Try to resist the urge to open one sooner, but if you do it may be a bit green and under carbonated.

Did you use a kit? Follow a recipe on here? Please share your first experience. Congrats again!

 

[gunhaus]

FUN! Ain't it!

 

[Sailingeric]

Remember, beer wants to be made! Now go and make some more!

 

[Jim Gamble]

Congrats on your first attempt. Let them carbonate for a good two weeks then crack open a bottle. Try to resist the urge to open one sooner, but if you do it may be a bit green and under carbonated.

Did you use a kit? Follow a recipe on here? Please share your first experience. Congrats again!

Yes, I did use a kit, Mr Beer. And, I modified the mr beer recipe with the addition of grains and hops.

 

[Jim Gamble]

Remember, beer wants to be made! Now go and make some more!

Planing on making some more. Next will be a stout. This one is a sesion ipa. It came with the mr beer kit and I modified it with additional grain and hops. The stout will have, still from mr beer, will have some chocolate in it.

 

[RM-MN]

Congrats on your first attempt. Let them carbonate for a good two weeks then crack open a bottle. Try to resist the urge to open one sooner, but if you do it may be a bit green and under carbonated.

Did you use a kit? Follow a recipe on here? Please share your first experience. Congrats again!

Don't follow this advice. It isn't wrong and in fact it will be better beer if you leave it for 3 or 4 weeks but it's your first beer so give it just one week and try a bottle. ONLY ONE!! Leave the rest alone for at least another week so you can see how your beer progresses as it matures. Try one bottle a week until you can't stand the wait any longer.

 

[pshankstar]

Don't follow this advice. It isn't wrong and in fact it will be better beer if you leave it for 3 or 4 weeks but it's your first beer so give it just one week and try a bottle. ONLY ONE!! Leave the rest alone for at least another week so you can see how your beer progresses as it matures. Try one bottle a week until you can't stand the wait any longer.

I understand where you are coming from, but to say don't follow this advise I think is a bit much. The OP is a new home brewer and I simply said to let them carbonate for a good two weeks, for most new home brewers find it hard to wait. With that I said if he was to open one early, which there is nothing wrong with it, to be aware that the beer may be a bit under carbonated and possibly a little green. What I would hate to see happen is the OP open some early and get discouraged that the beer he made doesn't taste good. You and I said the same thing pretty much, let the beer mature and don't rush it. I feel the hardest part for a new brewer is to wait after bottling the beer since they anxious to try the finished product.

Cheers again OP and welcome to the new hobby!

 

[Jim Gamble]

FUN! Ain't it!

More then fun, addicting.

 

[Riverevir]

I want to go on record that I agree with RM-MN. What pshank is saying is absolutely correct. But I did, and until I get a full handle on this process will continue to do what RM-MN says. I personally learned a decent amount by doing this and it's helping me get a better understanding for what to look for to know a beer is finished. I'm under 10 batches in, and I didn't know what "green beer" meant -- a term that gets thrown around often. I have a better understanding because I've tried it after 1 week like RM says... I don't plan to do this forever, but for now it has been helpful.

 

[ncbrewer]

OP - You're getting an introduction to the varying opinions about brewing. Pretty much every aspect of brewing is like this - multiple possible methods and opinions. It's a very personal thing, and that's part of the fun. Welcome.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I understand where you are coming from, but to say don't follow this advise I think is a bit much. <stuff said here>. I feel the hardest part for a new brewer is to wait after bottling the beer since they anxious to try the finished product.

Cheers again OP and welcome to the new hobby!

I too, agreeably, disagree.

I think the BEST time to sample beer early is when you are new to the whole process but with the caveat of being aware that it is, most likely, too early. You can not fully understand what a green beer is until you taste it. You can not fully appreciate the contribution of carbonation until you have sampled both under, and over, carbonated beer. Until then, suggestions are construed as absolute. After, they are more like guidelines.

My personal discovery has been that I prefer some styles at much different carbonation volumes than most construe as absolute.