hello all
just thought id share my experience from my ag no 2 .yes ive been lurking around here for the best part of two years and only done two ag brews ( no 3 cumming up shortly) any way it was a flying herbert chosen at random from the internet.
I've now decided it's a good idea to brew beers that i actually know what they taste like.
Any way all went to plan on brew day
and into the budget barrel it goes.that may have been my mistake.fast forward a few weeks and i have a taste its rank nothing i can particularly put my finger on just tastes horrable.so it sits there for a cupple of weeks and i have another go still not at all nice not to my taste and doesn't taste right .
It sits there for a week or two more still no change by this time the presures gone in the barell and down the sink it goes apart from a cupple of two litre bottles that i fill just in case my some miracle it gets better. just opened one now and it tastes quite nice just goes to show what a bit of time can do
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crap beer come good
Re: crap beer come good
If the barrel was leaking, maybe the off-flavours were due to oxidisation?
But it's weird the way beer changes. The Futterly which had crusty wood dropped in it and was fermented at the temperature of the sun before cracking the keg and ending up with 10L in the kitchen ceiling has produced some nice bottles out of the remains. OK, a couple were vinegar and at least two were banana flavoured, but I've probably had about 8 or 9 genuinely nice-tasting bottles in the last week or so.
Just goes to show you should never throw it away unless it's crawling out of the bottle.
But it's weird the way beer changes. The Futterly which had crusty wood dropped in it and was fermented at the temperature of the sun before cracking the keg and ending up with 10L in the kitchen ceiling has produced some nice bottles out of the remains. OK, a couple were vinegar and at least two were banana flavoured, but I've probably had about 8 or 9 genuinely nice-tasting bottles in the last week or so.
Just goes to show you should never throw it away unless it's crawling out of the bottle.