Shame in chucking?

[whitehause]

Only ever dumped two.
One was a "throw together everything I have a pound or two of and see what happens"......bad idea.
The second was a good beer, but the wife decided to help, and delabled two cases of bottles I had for the batch. Soaked em in oxy, got the labels off, rinsed em, dried them on the bottle tree, and had them ready to go.....problem is....she never rinsed the oxy from the inside of the bottles I didn't notice till a couple weeks later when I saw a white crust on top of all the beer in the bottles. I couldn't really get mad, but I did explain that oxy is not a no rinse sanitizer.

 

[naga77777]

There's no shame in dumping a batch. I'm considering doing so with an IPA that I brewed last year with Cascade, Horizon, and Glacier hops - just way too much citrus and ended up with little body to back it up. It will be my first dumper in a long time. Since I've moved to yeast starters and temperature control with a freezer, my quality has increased dramatically and I've eliminated many if not all of the off-flavors that my early beers had. This one was a poor recipe, not poor brewing. Just learn from where you made your mistake and apply that to the next beer.

Wait!! I'll take it!!! LOL.

To be on-topic, I just dumped a batch for the first time. It was a Rogue Hazelnut Brown clone, to which I added 2 bottles of extract, when the kit only came with one. BAD idea. To be honest, I dont think I would have liked it with just the one. The extract tasted like an artificial one, and the smell/flavor wasn't that good.

I felt a little sorrow at seeing 2 cases worth of beer down the drain/on the ground, but not necessarily shame. That beer had been in bottles for a few months, and there was no way i was drinking it.

 

[IffyG]

Wait!! I'll take it!!! LOL.

To be on-topic, I just dumped a batch for the first time. It was a Rogue Hazelnut Brown clone, to which I added 2 bottles of extract, when the kit only came with one. BAD idea.

FWIW, the flavor extracts usually fade with time (sometimes dramatically). I had a chocolate raspberry stout that I used too much extract in and the flavor dropped off significantly after about 6 weeks.

 

[naga77777]

^that's what I was hoping for, but sadly no luck.

seriously no beer smell/taste. Just extract. Blech.