My first brew, ran into some problems, help

[avillax]

I'd give it another two weeks in the bottle before judging anything. You're rushing things, which is typical for your first brew. Let this one sit, and brew another batch, only this time, don't use a bucket with a spigot, and figure out a way to control your temps. Keep reading this forum, it's a wealth of knowledge. Good luck.

I will let the rest sit, but how would I know if it got infected? how does infection taste like?

 

[avillax]

On a note: it didn't taste like sour milk or metallic nor buttery. Does have lager-like similarities.

 

[kh54s10]

You will know if it is infected. It will probably not taste like any beer you have had. If it is infected and bottled at 9 days, which in my opinion was too soon, watch for extreme foam when you open a bottle. If that happens post immediately. It might mean bottle bombs. Though it seems unlikely from what has been described.

At one week of bottle conditioning your beer is very young. It will probably taste a lot different when fully conditioned at about 3 weeks. I have tasted 1 bottle of a lot of my beers at 2 weeks - ALL of my beers tasted better at three weeks or longer.

As others have said. Start another beer ASAP and let these ones age. If you have a few beers going in the wings it make you less tempted to finish off one that is not really ready.

 

[avillax]

This is the way it looked. So that's cool, it can still improve, like I said, the aroma is really nice but it lacks lots of flavor, also it did have nice head, I wasn't expecting that, though not some crazy bomb or anything like that, but who knows.

I can't brew more right now, I'm very sick.

 

[Kharnynb]

get a bucket without spigot and an auto-siphon for your next brew.

Get a big cement mixing bucket as a swamp cooler.

Be patient, much more patient.

This should make your beer much better.

 

[avillax]

after a few days Im having another one and tastes even better to the point that I dont think it got infected, only thing is: the hops have the right bitterness but no taste, the smell is excellent, why did I miss the hopie taste?

 

[avillax]

Actually the last 1/4th had a bit of a metallic taste to it