iron_city_ap
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So I just finished bottling a batch of a regular ol' wheat. Nothing really fancy, no wierd additives (irish moss, yeast nutrient to the boil).
Initially, the gravity was 1.032 @70F on 1-20. I racked it to the secondary on 1-29 the gravity showed 1.012 @63-65F. Today I bottled and the gravity was showing @ 1.020-1.018 @65F. It was kept in the same place as all of my other batches, which is in my closet with a towel covering to keep it extra dark with a pretty constant temp and it wasn't moved until I racked to the secondary and then sat idle again the two weeks it was in secondary.
What, if anything does this indicate? The only other time I've seen anything like it was a couple batches ago, and after 3 weeks in the bottles, the beer, an English Brown Ale, was worse and more bitter than when it was bottled. I'm not talking the good kind of bitter. I'm talking the more spoiled tasting bitter. It was completely undrinkable and I ended up pitching that entire batch.
Guess I should also mention, that I tasted some of it and other than it being flat, didn't really taste all that bad. A little sharpness to it, but nothing I would really think was that far off.
I have another partial batch which is actually an experiment off of this batch that has some banana slices in it that I will be bottling next week. Just taking the lid off of it and smelling, it has an extremely sharp smell to it.
Initially, the gravity was 1.032 @70F on 1-20. I racked it to the secondary on 1-29 the gravity showed 1.012 @63-65F. Today I bottled and the gravity was showing @ 1.020-1.018 @65F. It was kept in the same place as all of my other batches, which is in my closet with a towel covering to keep it extra dark with a pretty constant temp and it wasn't moved until I racked to the secondary and then sat idle again the two weeks it was in secondary.
What, if anything does this indicate? The only other time I've seen anything like it was a couple batches ago, and after 3 weeks in the bottles, the beer, an English Brown Ale, was worse and more bitter than when it was bottled. I'm not talking the good kind of bitter. I'm talking the more spoiled tasting bitter. It was completely undrinkable and I ended up pitching that entire batch.
Guess I should also mention, that I tasted some of it and other than it being flat, didn't really taste all that bad. A little sharpness to it, but nothing I would really think was that far off.
I have another partial batch which is actually an experiment off of this batch that has some banana slices in it that I will be bottling next week. Just taking the lid off of it and smelling, it has an extremely sharp smell to it.