it tastes like....extract

[SeanyP321]

First batch (of 3 batchs)- it is a lager kit with what I can only guess was an ale yeast. My fermenter has been bubbling away for about 2.5 weeks. My FG has leveled out. Gonna bottle on friday. decided to have a sip after taking my readingand it tastes...well very much how I would have imagined the extract to taste. You know that lovely waft you get when you add your extract to your boiling water. It tastes like a beery version of that. Not at all unpleasent. Quite sweet like honey. But not like lager....or ale. Like extract!

Has something gone wrong?

Cheers

 

[mlanoue]

It sounds like you tasted it under less than ideal circumstances. Sure, it can be fun to snag a taste, but it won't taste quite right for several more weeks in the bottles. Don't worry.

Since it didn't make your stomach churn, I bet your beer will end up just fine.

 

[Runyanka]

carbonation + bottle conditioning = flavors do the happy dance. Time heals all things, even beer (as some wise guy on here once told :cross