Cry Cry Crying Shame!

[Grok]

When you've got yourself to blame.........
Thanks Johnny Diesel, great song BTW!
This is what can happen when you get slack and leave the beer on the yeast cake to long.
After about 5~6 weeks sitting in a closed stainless fermenter at about 3 degrees C, thinking it'll be alright......well it wasn't, it was terrible, a taste somewhere between licking an old sunburnt car tyre whilst chewing on a dozen used plastic band-aids!
Don't do it!
I was in tears as I poured 46L down the drain

 

[djebel]

This forum needs a much sadder emoji for occasions such as this.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Complacency is the home brewers Nemesis

 

[Grok]

It does give me a question though!
When doing bottle and keg self generating co2 (sugar), why doesn't the same problem occur?

 

[dkril]

It does give me a question though!
When doing bottle and keg self generating co2 (sugar), why doesn't the same problem occur?

I'd imagine it's the volume of yeast, but that's purely speculation on my part.

 

[livo]

Sunburnt car tyre sounds very familiar to how I once enquired about my beer tasting like burnt rubber. (No bandaids.) Autolysis. Too hot or possibly left on the yeast for too long. In my case it was hot fermentation.