Don't get me wrong, I've made bad beer before. It just usually happens when I'm trying something new, not when I'm adapting an old recipe. This one came out just...weird. Recipe was as follows:
OG 1.052
FG 1.006
72.5% Bohemian Pilsner
14% Spelt malt
7% Golden Naked Oats
4% Table sugar
2.5% Acid malt
30 IBU Warrior @ 60 min
1 Huell Melon / 1 Amarillo - 30 min @ 160F
2 Huell Melon / 2 Amarillo - 4 day DH
Imperial Organic B56 Rustic - 2 days @ 68, ramping up 2F/day until it got to 86F & held until attenuated
The beer "looks" amazing, straw yellow, slight chill haze with a stiff white head. It smells like one of those edible arrangement bouquets, with tons of melon and strawberry coming through, but the flavor is completely off -- excessively bitter and really phenolic. I can't detect any banana or bubblegum (which is what I was worried about) over the overwhelming fruit basket. Each individual aspect is not unpleasant, but combined, it just tastes like a circus.
Any ideas as to what happened here?
OG 1.052
FG 1.006
72.5% Bohemian Pilsner
14% Spelt malt
7% Golden Naked Oats
4% Table sugar
2.5% Acid malt
30 IBU Warrior @ 60 min
1 Huell Melon / 1 Amarillo - 30 min @ 160F
2 Huell Melon / 2 Amarillo - 4 day DH
Imperial Organic B56 Rustic - 2 days @ 68, ramping up 2F/day until it got to 86F & held until attenuated
The beer "looks" amazing, straw yellow, slight chill haze with a stiff white head. It smells like one of those edible arrangement bouquets, with tons of melon and strawberry coming through, but the flavor is completely off -- excessively bitter and really phenolic. I can't detect any banana or bubblegum (which is what I was worried about) over the overwhelming fruit basket. Each individual aspect is not unpleasant, but combined, it just tastes like a circus.
Any ideas as to what happened here?