think my beer'll be all right?

[size]

so I made a light ale to test my brewery a few days ago

1oz 6.8% Challenger
10 lbs Pale
US-05 yeast

i drove an hour home with my freshly acquired grains, got everything set up, only to realize they weren't crushed. not wanting to crush them all by hand I looked up alternative methods and ended up blending. I did this with two batches, but the other one I let mash for almost 2 hours, and doesn't have the off flavors this one does.

so anyway, it's an extremely grainy taste, definitely not tasty (though im just bottling it now), which I right deserved for not crushing my grains right.

does this grainy taste go away or lessen at all with age? is there anything I can do about it?

 

[Brewin06111]

If you only brewed it a couple days ago and are tasting it now there in lies the problem....You need more time to determine the outcome

 

[size]

well I brewed it about 2 weeks ago.

and i understand the "wait and find out" thing, but if IIRC things like phenols only get worse with age, so I'm wondering if that's the case...

 

[jamesnsw]

Did you do an iodine test? I didn't on my first AGs, and it turns out I didn't get conversion. So there was a lot of starch in my beer, giving it a grainy taste like you describe. I'm guessing the one you mashed for 2 hours doesn't have this off flavor because you got conversion.

 

[malkore]

my guess is that crush method really shredded the husks and you got a lot of tannin extraction. is it a little astringent tasting on the tongue?