sourness?!?!?!

[David20Hersch]

brewed 4 days ago and took my first gravity reading to see how it is coming along. it is at 1.022, looking great but when i tasted it, it had a tart sourness and a starchy taste. my friend commented that it tasted like sour porridge hoping that the sourness isnt from some kind of contamination but a by product of the yeast which is wlp300. i also mashed at 147-149 for 50 minutes, conducted a iodine test which indicated that there was no starch in the mash so the starchy flavor doesn't make sense.

let me know what you guys think!

 

[David20Hersch]

should i throw it out

let it be for a while and taste in a week

or is this normal

 

[secondbase]

4 days isn't a good enough window to give a beer a taste test. It's likely what you're tasting is yeast bite. Leave it alone for two weeks, take another gravity reading and taste it again.

 

[Resonator]

Most likely yeast still in suspension. Did you let the sample settle before trying it also?

 

[David20Hersch]

no i didn't let it settle oops