Quick ?

[NorsemenRugby58]

I brewed the second round of this pale ale recipe I've been trying to master. Still lacking in hops and needs some more tweaking, but it has a pretty weird off flavor to it. It was bottled 2 weeks ago, carbonation on point.

Does it just need time for the off flavor to condition out?

 

[Yooper]

Can you describe the off-flavor? Plastic, grassy, "hot", buttery, slick, ashy, etc?

Green beer doesn't taste "off" usually. It might taste a bit of green apples until it's aged enough, but not what I would describe as a weird flavor.

What was your recipe? Some ingredients do take a bit longer to meld together.

 

[NorsemenRugby58]

buttery was the off flavor...but a raunchy buttery flavor.

12# malteurop
1.25# crystal 60


1oz Magnum (60min)
.5oz Perle (30min)
.5oz Cascade (10min)

Wyeast 1056 American Pale

Primary-7 days
Secondary-7 days
Bottled- 14 days

Brewed on 9/4/2010

 

[Catt22]

Sounds like a diacetyl problem. If so, it won't go away. Diacetyl is a fermentation byproduct and some yeasts are more prone to producing it than others. Lager yeast is more likely to produce diacetyl than ale yeast. Probably not much you can do about it at this point.