Coodgee
Well-Known Member
Hi guys, I am very new to liquid yeasts and this is the first one I have brewed with. my current lager is fermenting at the moment at around 7-18 % I am not going for a very correct style. I tasted my beer after about 5 days in the fermenter and it definately has a different taste that I have never tasted in a brew before. I can taste the saaz hops and pils malt but there is this other flavour there as well that overrides the malt and hops.. it's strange, a powdery/chalky even slightly milky taste.. like if you mixed pineapple juice and milk together and drank it maybe.. this is the same as the taste of the starter and the taste of the residue of yeast in the vial. so I don't think it is an infection that I have caused.
maybe I am not describing this right. but it certainly is nothing like a clean lager taste at this stage.
so..
1. is this a normal taste and smell?
2. is it likely to disapear with cold conditioning.
nb I have taken the sample from down in the trub every time. it's very cloudy with some solid clumps of trub in it...
not sure If I should use this yeast for my octoberfest tomorrow...
maybe I am not describing this right. but it certainly is nothing like a clean lager taste at this stage.
so..
1. is this a normal taste and smell?
2. is it likely to disapear with cold conditioning.
nb I have taken the sample from down in the trub every time. it's very cloudy with some solid clumps of trub in it...
not sure If I should use this yeast for my octoberfest tomorrow...