ckoerntjes
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Ok... So me and my mate have put down two brews neither of which have been up the scratch...
The first was a coopers pale, made with the yeast recommended by the brew shop and 1kg of malt also recommended by the brew shop (I now know to remember whatever goes in my brew.). Anyway obvious problems were that we followed the coopers directions and brewed it too warm (25 degrees.) and probably left it in the fermenter too long (we were paranoid it hadn't finished and didnt have a hydrometer yet.)
Anyway we bottled the stuff and were really excited when we opened the first one...until we tasted it. Carbonation was lovely (hell of a lot of yeast in the bottom of the bottle though.) but it tasted like beer mixed with a chemical of some sort . (We used no rinse sanitiser and everything was spotless before we started) This chemical taste was especially strong in the yeast sediment in the bottom.
After struggling through that bad lot we put down a brewcraft little creatures clone. (used everything in the box and didn't leave it in the fermenter too long (about 1 week).) When that was done and bottled we opened and it tasted better (had less sediment too) but still had the chemically flavour... We just put down a snowy mountains clone (Boxed kit) and are awaiting the results now..
Any ideas on getting rid of this chemically flavour????
(If your in SE Melbourne and fancy a taste it can be arranged)
Cheers.
(Apologies if I've missed info or don't make sense, I'm not much of a forumer.)
The first was a coopers pale, made with the yeast recommended by the brew shop and 1kg of malt also recommended by the brew shop (I now know to remember whatever goes in my brew.). Anyway obvious problems were that we followed the coopers directions and brewed it too warm (25 degrees.) and probably left it in the fermenter too long (we were paranoid it hadn't finished and didnt have a hydrometer yet.)
Anyway we bottled the stuff and were really excited when we opened the first one...until we tasted it. Carbonation was lovely (hell of a lot of yeast in the bottom of the bottle though.) but it tasted like beer mixed with a chemical of some sort . (We used no rinse sanitiser and everything was spotless before we started) This chemical taste was especially strong in the yeast sediment in the bottom.
After struggling through that bad lot we put down a brewcraft little creatures clone. (used everything in the box and didn't leave it in the fermenter too long (about 1 week).) When that was done and bottled we opened and it tasted better (had less sediment too) but still had the chemically flavour... We just put down a snowy mountains clone (Boxed kit) and are awaiting the results now..
Any ideas on getting rid of this chemically flavour????
(If your in SE Melbourne and fancy a taste it can be arranged)
Cheers.
(Apologies if I've missed info or don't make sense, I'm not much of a forumer.)