The brew from a week ago looks like it took a turn for the worse. It has turned very cloudy and has a pungent medicinal smell. Yep, something got into it. Polluted, punked, tainted. Still tastes pretty good, though.
I made another batch of beer this Friday. I wandered into Homebrew Mart knowing only that I wanted to do a dark beer. This is what I came out with:
Recipe:
8# Domestic Pale
1# Special B
1# Victory Malt
1/2# Chocolate Malt
1/4# Black Malt
1 oz Simcoe 60 mins BEOB (Before end of boil)
1 oz EKG 10 mins BEOB
White Labs WLP001.
It's dark. Slightly lighter than motor oil. Starting gravity of 1.070. That means a ABV of around 7-8%.
I had an interesting beer last night. It was AleSmith's Horny Devil. I've had it before, but remember it being more of a white beer. It now has a bit of a tart sour taste to it. It was really quite enjoyable. I didn't take tasting notes. Sometimes you just gotta drink for drinking's sake.
That's too bad. Any idea what got into it, and are you pretty much looking at dumping it, or can you salvage anything like this? We're just starting out in the hobby, and this is bound to happen eventually...
ReplyDeleteI put some poly clar in it and kegged it. Didn't really help much. I'm going to let it sit and think about what it's done. I think it's hosed, though. I don't know what got into it. I used some cardamom seeds that I have had for a while. Stored vacuum sealed and I put them in the boil, but who knows.
ReplyDeleteI've had this happen a few times, and if there's a cure, I haven't found it. The other times it was likely from my use of fresh peel from our citrus tree out back. This time, I don't know for sure.