So I tried my first fruit/veg/spice beer yesterday and it's pretty bad. It's a pumpkin spiced ale and when I racked to secondary I couldn't really taste the pumpkin pie spice so I added another 1.5 tsp. Also it was way over my original estimate of OG. I knew it would be higher as I didn't account for the pumpkin sugars, but WOW it's like 7.1% and tastes hot and thin. Plus, there's this non-hop bitterness that reminds me of how dried cinnamon can be bitter, but without much aroma from the spices. I know after some time beers mellow and become drinkable, but the fact it may be the bitter spices is new to me. D
Does anyone have any experience with spices mellowing? It did 10 in primary, 14 in bright tank, then it's been bottled about 21 days. I really want this to be drinkable by Jan, but since it's in the bottle I can't even blend it without tons of work.
Does anyone have any experience with spices mellowing? It did 10 in primary, 14 in bright tank, then it's been bottled about 21 days. I really want this to be drinkable by Jan, but since it's in the bottle I can't even blend it without tons of work.
