I just bottled my first batch - a batch of Dunkelweizen. I decided to do the 1-2-3 method people talk about on here instead of the recipe instructions of 10 days in primary, then bottle.
As of the last reading I took when transferring to secondary, the beer tasted great, albeit flat. I just tasted the last of the bottling bucket that would not fill another bottle and it is extremely bitter and not in a pleasantly hoppy way.
For both the transfer to secondary and transfer to bottling bucket, I used my mouth to start the siphon. The owner of my LHBS claims this is how he's done it for years and wouldn't ever bother buying an autosiphon even though he owns the store and could have it at cost. Could this have caused the off taste? Does the priming sugar cause an off taste like this? (I remember it didn't smell sweet like table sugar when I boiled it).
I'm going to have to spring for an autosiphon before I move my next batch around, just to make sure that I don't have to worry about this again.
As of the last reading I took when transferring to secondary, the beer tasted great, albeit flat. I just tasted the last of the bottling bucket that would not fill another bottle and it is extremely bitter and not in a pleasantly hoppy way.
For both the transfer to secondary and transfer to bottling bucket, I used my mouth to start the siphon. The owner of my LHBS claims this is how he's done it for years and wouldn't ever bother buying an autosiphon even though he owns the store and could have it at cost. Could this have caused the off taste? Does the priming sugar cause an off taste like this? (I remember it didn't smell sweet like table sugar when I boiled it).
I'm going to have to spring for an autosiphon before I move my next batch around, just to make sure that I don't have to worry about this again.