During the lockdown I decided to start learning home brewing. I started with couple of Mangrove Jack's pouches, all them turned out to be a quite good beer, but this is subjective.
I wanted to raise the stakes a bit, so I found a recipe online stating to be a perfect no-boil NEIPA recipe. I did not have big expectations, but it turned out be nice until I bottled for carbonation with sugar, because now it seems it got rotten or something like that and I do not understand what have I done wrongly.
Here the steps of the entire process:
- Sanitized every equipement with Chemipro OXI
- Warmed up 10 l of Norda mineral water (it has very low amount of minerals in it) to about 70 C and dissolved 2 kg of wheat DME. Reheated the wort to around 70 C again and did 20 minutes of whirlpooling with 45 g of Tomahawk hops
- Since I do not have an immersion chiller yet, I brought the wort outside to cool down below 23 C. I did not seal it firmly, left about a 1 cm for the steam to exit
- Used half a pack of Safale S-04 yeast to start fermentation.
- After about 1.5 days, I added a 50 g Simcoe, 25 g Citra and 20 g Tomahawk as a dry hop charge.
- Left it to ferment for 5.5 days and then bottled it.
I read that I should drain the beer directly from the fermenter to cause as less oxidation as much as I can, so I removed the airlock and started draining the beer into sanitized bottles which I previously filled with dissolved sugar. I made the sugar syrup above 100 C, so I would say that was also sanitized.
Now what I do not understand is this:
This is how it looked like during bottling:
The smell was extremely hoppy and citrusy as the taste.
And this how it looks like 4 days into the carbonation:
The smell reminds me to candy and has a very unpleasant taste as well.
I wanted to raise the stakes a bit, so I found a recipe online stating to be a perfect no-boil NEIPA recipe. I did not have big expectations, but it turned out be nice until I bottled for carbonation with sugar, because now it seems it got rotten or something like that and I do not understand what have I done wrongly.
Here the steps of the entire process:
- Sanitized every equipement with Chemipro OXI
- Warmed up 10 l of Norda mineral water (it has very low amount of minerals in it) to about 70 C and dissolved 2 kg of wheat DME. Reheated the wort to around 70 C again and did 20 minutes of whirlpooling with 45 g of Tomahawk hops
- Since I do not have an immersion chiller yet, I brought the wort outside to cool down below 23 C. I did not seal it firmly, left about a 1 cm for the steam to exit
- Used half a pack of Safale S-04 yeast to start fermentation.
- After about 1.5 days, I added a 50 g Simcoe, 25 g Citra and 20 g Tomahawk as a dry hop charge.
- Left it to ferment for 5.5 days and then bottled it.
I read that I should drain the beer directly from the fermenter to cause as less oxidation as much as I can, so I removed the airlock and started draining the beer into sanitized bottles which I previously filled with dissolved sugar. I made the sugar syrup above 100 C, so I would say that was also sanitized.
Now what I do not understand is this:
This is how it looked like during bottling:
The smell was extremely hoppy and citrusy as the taste.
And this how it looks like 4 days into the carbonation:
The smell reminds me to candy and has a very unpleasant taste as well.
