does the green apple taste ever go away?

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does the green apple taste ever go away?

Post by drmick » Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:31 pm

hi All

made two batches of beer last week and fermented in the garage in a big tub of water and it kept the temperature about 20C. I moved them indoors on Thursday in to what I thought was a similar temperature room with the idea of bottling them today. Just done the first batch and it tastes and smells decidedly applely :( which from preious posts is partly due to fermenting to high - when I moved them indoors they had finished fermenting according to the hydrometer (two identical readings). The first batch, a London Pride clone tasted great midweek when I checked to see whether fermentation had finished but when I went to bottle it lots of apples. The other batch a summer lightning clone is still in the FV and I have put it back in the garage in the water bath which is currently 18C. So does the taste/smell go away with time or am I stuck with 40L of something that doesn't taste too great?

Thanks
Michael

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Re: does the green apple taste ever go away?

Post by soupdragon » Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:43 pm

Hi

I had a brew ferment rather quickly at too high a temperature and I was dissapointed when I barreled as I could smell green apples. After a couple of weeks it seemes to have dissapeared. I've been finishing some other beer off recently so don't know how it tastes now but I'm hoping it'll be fine.
Fingers crossed yours will turn out ok if given time to mature a little :)

Cheers Tom

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