my first brew (scottish 60) tell me what u think

[red96jeep]

hey guys this is my first beer i''ve made, it's a scottish 60 one day in bottle, 4 week fermentation. tell me what u think/ and why its so cloudy.

 

[TrannyRock]

The most important thing is what do YOU think? What does it taste like?

If you're bottle priming, you need to let it sit for three weeks for carbonation to complete.

 

[KayaBrew]

How do you get it to stay in the glass when it's on it's side like that? Looks tasty. Send me a sixer and I'll grade it for you.

 

[android]

wait 2 weeks + 6 days before opening another and it will taste better and have cleared up some too.

 

[red96jeep]

it tasted not bad, other then being flat. a nice little hop bitterness at the end nothing too severe (i'm not a fan of super hopped beers). and a good malty taste to start with. i'm quite proud of it for a first attempt. i was just dissapointed with the haze, i think it might have been due to a bad cool break, gonna invest in a wort chiller this summer i think.

 

[carnevoodoo]

it tasted not bad, other then being flat. a nice little hop bitterness at the end nothing too severe (i'm not a fan of super hopped beers). and a good malty taste to start with. i'm quite proud of it for a first attempt. i was just dissapointed with the haze, i think it might have been due to a bad cool break, gonna invest in a wort chiller this summer i think.

It could be due to the fact that it has been bottled ONE DAY. It'll be less sweet, clearer, and muuuuch different once you give it time.

You have bottling sugar in there, yeast trying to carbonate the beer, and you haven't given it time to settle. There's no mystery as to why it is so cloudy.

WAIT 3 WEEKS.

 

[red96jeep]

It could be due to the fact that it has been bottled ONE DAY. It'll be less sweet, clearer, and muuuuch different once you give it time.

You have bottling sugar in there, yeast trying to carbonate the beer, and you haven't given it time to settle. There's no mystery as to why it is so cloudy.

WAIT 3 WEEKS.

oh i will, i was just excited to see what u guys would say haha

 

[Kungpaodog]

I "tested" all of my first few batches every week to learn about green beer, but now my pipeline is full enough that I have plenty of conditioned beer on hand to keep me out of the young stuff. You'll be amazed at how different that beer will be in another 3 to 6 weeks. Go brew some more and leave that one alone!

To quote BigKahuna (where the hell did he go after that newspaper thing?): "Don't be a beer pedophile!"

 

[GunnerMan]

Yeah, it will clear significantly in 3 weeks. It will be a whole different beer. People around my house are usually cracking into my brews at week two, as much as I try to make them wait. So there is usually 2.5 gallons left by week three, when I can really taste how I did.
My crimson ale for example, week 2 it was incredibly fruity, I really didnot like it, week 3-4 no more fruityness and the malt profile is really shining in this Irish Red, it is a good beer.

 

[BillTheSlink]

I am getting ready to do a Scottish 80. I hope mine turn out well too. The instructions on my kit from Northern Brewer says they allow 2 weeks in primary, (That can very with temp) two for clarification in secondary, and at least two weeks in the bottles. It's flat because what was left in your yeast hasn't converted your priming sugars and produced gas. I bet you'll be just fine. It has a good color. It's probably tasting sweet too because of the extra sugar in the bottle that hasn't been converted yet.

I too don't like bitter beers. I have four planned: Bavarian Hefe Weizen and The Scottish 80 will go into primaries over the weekend or early next week. As soon as they are racked to the secondary I'm doing an Irish red and a Cream Ale, all from Northern Brewer.

 

[anemic]

you can check beer the pitching, racking & bottling stages, but you have to imagine what it will be like in the proper finished condition! It is too soon to judge, even for you, who actually has the beer in a glass, much less from the web. Definitely come back to your thread after 3 weeks bottle conditioning and post the update!

Out of sight out of mind with that 60/" now wee laddie...put a blanket over it if you can see it, or get it into a remote corner of the basement. You don't want to be looking at it.