Yeasty tasting beer!!

[Doghouse-gav]

I have brewed a st peters ruby ale. I have made this before and kegged with no problems. So I decided to make it again and bottle. All went well and bottled and left in the house for a week. Moved it to a fridge in the garage and after a week tryed it. Tasted good. But 4 weeks later it's developed a real strong yeast smell and taste. What's happend?????

 

[Golddiggie]

How long did it ferment/sit on the yeast cake?

I would have left it at room temp, once bottled, for 2-3 weeks before chilling any down...

 

[unionrdr]

1st of all,did you prime it before/during bottling? And then right into the fridge? Beer has to be at room temp to condition/carbonate properly. The fridge will kill that. Chill shocking is just to help clear it up a lil more,& get the lil bit of yeasties to firm up more on the bottom of the bottle.

 

[Doghouse-gav]

I primed the bottles and racked and left at room temp for 7 days. Then moved to fridge. Never had any problems with bottling before but always left in the garage after a week in the house and not moved from house to fridge.before.

 

[Golddiggie]

I primed the bottles and racked and left at room temp for 7 days. Then moved to fridge. Never had any problems with bottling before but always left in the garage after a week in the house and not moved from house to fridge.before.

I've had solid results with bottling, leaving them at 70F for 3+ weeks (usually testing one after 2 weeks) before chilling down (for 4+ days) and drinking it.

You could try pulling them out of the fridge and letting them get up to temp to see if they'll finish bottle conditioning. I would put them into something that will prevent a mess in case you get bottle bombs...

General consensus here is to let bottles carbonate for 3 weeks at 70F (or at least 3 weeks) before chilling and drinking... I've found that 3-4+ days in the fridge gets the yeast/trub to compact very nicely. I also use a room temp beer glass now, since it tastes better than using a chilled/frozen glass.

 

[unionrdr]

I'm thinkin that's it. 2-3 weeks to carb up/condition decent. I'm doing the one I've got bottled now for 3 weeks at cool room temp,then a 4th in the fridge. Then I'll see what condition my condition is in...

 

[Golddiggie]

I usually target 68-73F for the room temp where I bottle carbonate my home brew... At night, it's a little on the cooler side (this time of year). During the day, it can get into the low 70's... Been working well for me so far...

I also store the brew in the same area, until it's time to chill more down... come the warmer months, I'll need to change that, but I still have some time...

Of course, I hope to be moving within 3-4 months, so I'll probably be looking to drink up most of what I have before then... I'm already formulating the first brew to be made for the new place...

 

[unionrdr]

I usually target 68-73F for the room temp where I bottle carbonate my home brew... At night, it's a little on the cooler side (this time of year). During the day, it can get into the low 70's... Been working well for me so far...

I also store the brew in the same area, until it's time to chill more down... come the warmer months, I'll need to change that, but I still have some time...

Of course, I hope to be moving within 3-4 months, so I'll probably be looking to drink up most of what I have before then... I'm already formulating the first brew to be made for the new place...

Pretty much my situation/thoughts right now. Come really warm weather,bottle conditioning may likely move to the basement. I did enough research on a few sights to come to the same conclusions.

 

[Doghouse-gav]

I have been a brought a temp control unit that will maintain the heat in my fridge to 13 degrees c. I got this on advice so once it's been in the house a week I'm guna put them in the heat fridge for a couple of weeks with all future brews. Anyone else do anything like that?

 

[unionrdr]

For lagering,you would...