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Hi all,
So I'm new to this whole home brew thing and have been brewing beer at 'The Beer Factory' in Sydney to get the hang of things before I branch out on my own.
We brewed a Pilsner but dumped a load of extra hops in at the end 4 weeks ago, and yesterday it came out tasting like a rusty copper coin. Really nasty metal taste. You could smell the hops nicely on the nose, but the taste was more metallic than a Tooheys New / Carlton Draught.
We'd done the same recipe before and it came out really sweet, same fermentation time, same addition of hops at the end.
The owner told me the metallic taste was from the 'late addition of hops'
Can anyone help me here?
Call me a novice, but I don't think a late addition of 85g Citra and 15g Halletau would make a beer taste metallic.
Cheers,
PBT.
So I'm new to this whole home brew thing and have been brewing beer at 'The Beer Factory' in Sydney to get the hang of things before I branch out on my own.
We brewed a Pilsner but dumped a load of extra hops in at the end 4 weeks ago, and yesterday it came out tasting like a rusty copper coin. Really nasty metal taste. You could smell the hops nicely on the nose, but the taste was more metallic than a Tooheys New / Carlton Draught.
We'd done the same recipe before and it came out really sweet, same fermentation time, same addition of hops at the end.
The owner told me the metallic taste was from the 'late addition of hops'
Can anyone help me here?
Call me a novice, but I don't think a late addition of 85g Citra and 15g Halletau would make a beer taste metallic.
Cheers,
PBT.