My beer has a cider taste

[drey Mitchell]

I'm not sure why my beer tastes like cider with a little sweetness. Might be temperature fluctuations. I want to figure it out before brewing my next batch. This was an American light. My next will be a pale ale. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Hard to say, without knowing your recipe. Was it a kit?

 

[keystonehb]

Often a green apple flavor comes from naturally occurring acetaldehyde. Its common for yeast to produce this during fermentation, but is then cleaned up by the yeast before bottling time.

Is it already bottled or are you sampling readings?
If its already bottled it could have been bottled too early before it had a chance to clean itself up, and american lager strains do tend to throw this flavor out often, but if you are claiming and sweetness could be a sign of incomplete fermentation.

Either way I would recommend make sure youre pitching enough yeast, oxegenating the wort, use some yeast nutrient, and try to keep temps stable and you should be fine.

 

[Bassman2003]

If you are new to brewing, this is probably related to the yeast. Let us know how you handled the yeast, what kind of yeast you used and what temperature you fermented at.