Mick0s
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Hi All, I don't speak out much on these forums, but do a fair bit of perusing. However, this time, my perusing has come up empty handed. So its time to cal on the big guns, that being you guys.
A month or so ago, Coopers Recipe of the month was a golden ale (recipe: http://www.coopers.com.au/#/diy-beer/beer-recipes/ale/detail/golden-ale-recipe-pack-23-litres/), i grabbed this one, and made it up (as far as I'm aware) to the letter.
Now, I've caveat this by pointing out that I did have a slight mishap, in that I added the can and the Light Dry Malt to the fermenter together before I added the hot steeped grain / hopped liquid, resulting in a fair amount of chunks of the stuff. I did manage to get most of these out and disintegrate them by adding them to a small amount of hot water, before returning them to the FV.
Pitched yeast (just the packed they provided, which they initially instructed, but followed up saying to pitch that pack AND the pack under the lid, but I got this email too late) and fermented for a week or two (don't have the dates on me) in a temp controlled fridge at ~ 17.5 degrees for 13 days or so followed by a cold crash for 6 days at 1.5-2 degrees and then bottled into stubbies with the good ol' coopers carb drops.
Now, fast forward 3 weeks, with the bottles in my garage (in Canberra, so not at all hot) and I cracked open a bottle and it has a very unpleasant, what can only be described as, 'smokey' taste to it. In hindsight, I did taste this throughout the fermentation when I took AG readings, and thought it would mellow as it matured, but it doesn't appear to have done so.
At this stage, I've left the bottles alone, and was going to give them a few more weeks to mature, before I start tipping them down the drain (or what the hell, I'll probably drink the anyway).
However I've been unable to find anything pointing out what would cause this smokey taste, and what I might have done wrong.
If anyone can shed some light, I'd be happy to know, as this was my first crack at a RotM pack, and I'd be keen to have a go at some more, but if I'm screwing them up somehow, it'd be nice to know what I'm doing wrong, as I don't particularly like tipping fifty bucks worth of ingredients down the drain too often.
A month or so ago, Coopers Recipe of the month was a golden ale (recipe: http://www.coopers.com.au/#/diy-beer/beer-recipes/ale/detail/golden-ale-recipe-pack-23-litres/), i grabbed this one, and made it up (as far as I'm aware) to the letter.
Now, I've caveat this by pointing out that I did have a slight mishap, in that I added the can and the Light Dry Malt to the fermenter together before I added the hot steeped grain / hopped liquid, resulting in a fair amount of chunks of the stuff. I did manage to get most of these out and disintegrate them by adding them to a small amount of hot water, before returning them to the FV.
Pitched yeast (just the packed they provided, which they initially instructed, but followed up saying to pitch that pack AND the pack under the lid, but I got this email too late) and fermented for a week or two (don't have the dates on me) in a temp controlled fridge at ~ 17.5 degrees for 13 days or so followed by a cold crash for 6 days at 1.5-2 degrees and then bottled into stubbies with the good ol' coopers carb drops.
Now, fast forward 3 weeks, with the bottles in my garage (in Canberra, so not at all hot) and I cracked open a bottle and it has a very unpleasant, what can only be described as, 'smokey' taste to it. In hindsight, I did taste this throughout the fermentation when I took AG readings, and thought it would mellow as it matured, but it doesn't appear to have done so.
At this stage, I've left the bottles alone, and was going to give them a few more weeks to mature, before I start tipping them down the drain (or what the hell, I'll probably drink the anyway).
However I've been unable to find anything pointing out what would cause this smokey taste, and what I might have done wrong.
If anyone can shed some light, I'd be happy to know, as this was my first crack at a RotM pack, and I'd be keen to have a go at some more, but if I'm screwing them up somehow, it'd be nice to know what I'm doing wrong, as I don't particularly like tipping fifty bucks worth of ingredients down the drain too often.