Just wanted to run this by everyone to try to figure out where I went wrong.
Brewed my first beer in April. I brewed a hoppy ale. I was very careful to sanitize everything during the brewing process. After two weeks, I tasted the beer and took the hydrometer reading. The beer tasted good and the reading was what the kit said it should be. So I bottled. I used the priming sugar and didn't notice any issues. Again I was careful to sanitize. Bottled and let them sit two weeks. Opened one after two weeks and it was great! Had a few more. All great. Had a nice hoppy smell and good taste. It was very similar to Founders All Day IPA.
So, after about another two weeks, I opened one and it just lacked flavor and did not have the nice hops smell. You would not want to drink it. It was very bland yet still carbonated. I opened another, same thing. Opened another and took notice of the cap. Seemed it was one correctly. That one also was bad. I went through 4... all bad. Next day I tried another few and they too were the same. This past weekend I tried another 6. 2 out of the 6 were good. The other 4 were bad like the others. So strange.
Because of the two that were good, I'm guessing I did not sanitize the bottles long enough? I did not time it when I sanitized them. If they were all bad, I would figure something got into the batch. But being that two are still good, and the beer was good initially, seems like maybe a problem with the bottles / sanitizing, correct?
Brewed my first beer in April. I brewed a hoppy ale. I was very careful to sanitize everything during the brewing process. After two weeks, I tasted the beer and took the hydrometer reading. The beer tasted good and the reading was what the kit said it should be. So I bottled. I used the priming sugar and didn't notice any issues. Again I was careful to sanitize. Bottled and let them sit two weeks. Opened one after two weeks and it was great! Had a few more. All great. Had a nice hoppy smell and good taste. It was very similar to Founders All Day IPA.
So, after about another two weeks, I opened one and it just lacked flavor and did not have the nice hops smell. You would not want to drink it. It was very bland yet still carbonated. I opened another, same thing. Opened another and took notice of the cap. Seemed it was one correctly. That one also was bad. I went through 4... all bad. Next day I tried another few and they too were the same. This past weekend I tried another 6. 2 out of the 6 were good. The other 4 were bad like the others. So strange.
Because of the two that were good, I'm guessing I did not sanitize the bottles long enough? I did not time it when I sanitized them. If they were all bad, I would figure something got into the batch. But being that two are still good, and the beer was good initially, seems like maybe a problem with the bottles / sanitizing, correct?