I've been too busy making a few kegs for my housewarming party next weekend to make any beer for my own drinking, so my last keg blew tonight!
I usually bottle a couple of Pet tallies with each brew, to go into my "archive". Anyway, I cracked a couple open tonight that were around 6 months old and originally started off as very tasty, crisp pale ales.
Anyway, the two I opened tasted like any generic wheat beer you could buy at a German pub. Don't mind this sometimes but tonight I wanted pale ales!
Have decided that if I'm to keep beers in an archive, I should probably keep them in the fridge to stop the yeasts throwing off these esters after fermentation has finished, or just bottle and drink while fresh(ish) at the same time as the keg...
I usually bottle a couple of Pet tallies with each brew, to go into my "archive". Anyway, I cracked a couple open tonight that were around 6 months old and originally started off as very tasty, crisp pale ales.
Anyway, the two I opened tasted like any generic wheat beer you could buy at a German pub. Don't mind this sometimes but tonight I wanted pale ales!
Have decided that if I'm to keep beers in an archive, I should probably keep them in the fridge to stop the yeasts throwing off these esters after fermentation has finished, or just bottle and drink while fresh(ish) at the same time as the keg...