Fingerlickin_B
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Hey folks, I have a weird one for you.
A friend of mine had this happen & he thought it was his fault, suspecting heat-related issues, however he uses a fridge with STC-1000 & now the exact same thing has happened to me. I don't have a fridge, but an insulated box & loads of frozen water bottles, which I monitor via a spare STC-1000.
In this instance, we've both used the same super-basic kits & bits recipe (which has been in my standard rotation for over a year now with no problems) & ended up with a really foul beer.
It's just two cans of Coopers wheat goo, supplied kit yeast, dry-hopped with about 2 desert spoons of Citra pellets & that's it.
The resulting beer is normally a somewhat sweet & fruity easy-to-drink drop that is a hit with everyone.
However, his recent batch & mine alike, have both initially when poured smelled like a can of Passiona in the glass & then upon drinking, taste quite foul, without a hint of sweetness. The taste I can't really describe, but it definitely smells like Passiona (which it normally doesn't), but worse.
The beer looks completely normal, as did the fermentation cycle of both batches. We both used cling wrap for lids & could see nothing out of the ordinary during fermentation or immediately prior to kegging.
We both keep to strict sanitisation regimes & most importantly to this topic, we both make beer in different houses & with our own gear (except for AG days, but this is of course not the case here), which means a shared infection cannot be the case.
Any ideas on what may have caused this?
I suspect a bad batch of goo or yeast from Coopers, given neither of us have experienced this before, however I'm not ready to accept that as an explanation just yet.
PZ.
A friend of mine had this happen & he thought it was his fault, suspecting heat-related issues, however he uses a fridge with STC-1000 & now the exact same thing has happened to me. I don't have a fridge, but an insulated box & loads of frozen water bottles, which I monitor via a spare STC-1000.
In this instance, we've both used the same super-basic kits & bits recipe (which has been in my standard rotation for over a year now with no problems) & ended up with a really foul beer.
It's just two cans of Coopers wheat goo, supplied kit yeast, dry-hopped with about 2 desert spoons of Citra pellets & that's it.
The resulting beer is normally a somewhat sweet & fruity easy-to-drink drop that is a hit with everyone.
However, his recent batch & mine alike, have both initially when poured smelled like a can of Passiona in the glass & then upon drinking, taste quite foul, without a hint of sweetness. The taste I can't really describe, but it definitely smells like Passiona (which it normally doesn't), but worse.
The beer looks completely normal, as did the fermentation cycle of both batches. We both used cling wrap for lids & could see nothing out of the ordinary during fermentation or immediately prior to kegging.
We both keep to strict sanitisation regimes & most importantly to this topic, we both make beer in different houses & with our own gear (except for AG days, but this is of course not the case here), which means a shared infection cannot be the case.
Any ideas on what may have caused this?
I suspect a bad batch of goo or yeast from Coopers, given neither of us have experienced this before, however I'm not ready to accept that as an explanation just yet.
PZ.
