Lost My Hop Flavour/aroma

[Housecat]

Hey all,

I have just successfully (or so I thought) made Cracka Fat Pale Ale. It is my first go at this type of recipe and as such, I followed it as closely as I could with the exception of dry hopping at day 4 with 10g of Cascade and 10g of Nelson Sauvin.

After fermenting for 11 days, I crash chilled it for 24 hours and then kegged it on Friday, force carbed it and was drinking it on Friday arvo/night. This is the only beer I drank all night.

Tasting notes of it were that it was very full of hop flavour and aroma namely the NS. However it had a bit of a soft drink feel (probably from the force carb) and seemed a bit thin. However, I was very happy and labeled it my best beer yet.

Now it is Sunday and I have just poured off a couple of glasses to boast about my beer to my Dad and I have been met with this watery bland ghost of what was! If I didn't know better I'd say it was a different beer!

I have two taps and the one that I was serving it through did have ginger beer in it so to count that out, I changed taps however, aside from there now being no ginger taste, it didn't fix it (the ginger taste was only there for the first pour anyway)

Also, I have my fridge set at 4C and CC'd at 2C. FG was 1.012

What did/n't I do and how can I rectify it?
Where did my Precious go?

Thanks for sitting through War and Peace

HC :icon_cheers:

 

[DUANNE]

did you vent of co2 after foce carbing? ive had nicely hopped beers that after of gasing lost a lot of aroma and flavour. now i force carb most of the way and leave it on the gas for a day or two so i can avoid any over carbing or needing to vent at all.

 

[Housecat]

did you vent of co2 after force carbing?

No, besides purging the keg, I didn't vent after.
I force carb using the slipper method which basically like the Ross Method but done at serving pressure. Takes longer but helps prevent over carbing.

 

[Brewlord]

Hey Housecat,

How much water did you start with? Maybe your SG was a bit low? I say this as I have recently made a two xmas swiller batches but put 23 litres in instead of the recommended 22 from the kit. Now I havent followed kit instructions for years but should have in this case as they seem very thin and watery as you have described. The flavour is very fine and I have read that even a small amount of extra water when you start (a few litres) can cause this. I think this is what I did. As to how to fix it - Ice beers I believe are frozen somewhere in the manufacturing process which concentrates flavour. I could be wrong and stand corrected if this is the case but if anybody can shed light on this, you might have a way to improve it.

 

[Housecat]

I brewed to just under 21L as I keg and don't like the waste. The SG was 1.052 so IMO not too far off the expected SG.

Only thing I can think of is that it is warmer in my beer fridge now (4C) than when I first put it in (2C) and that could be why I have lost some aroma. But I thought it was the other way around!

HC