Bramstoker17
Well-Known Member
So, I had a two and a half gallon batch of DIPA I did in a Mr Beer keg, mostly grain with a pound of extract and some corn sugar. I was really excited for this one. It was in the bottle for about 4 weeks or so when I cracked one open. It was pretty bad. The taste is hard to describe, but its definitely not right.
I had messed up racking from the Mr Beer keg into my bottling bucket. I'm pretty sure I overdid the dry hops, 3 oz, in a small batch. With all those hops floating around, combined with racking from a mr beer being a pain anyway, my siphon got really blocked up. I ended up just opening the mr beer spigot and running the beer down the side of the bottling bucket as gently as I could, but I'm pretty sure I oxidized it. If thats the case is there really any point in saving this beer? I'm not aware of anyway I could fix it at this point, and time will only make it worse if oxidation is the problem. Any ideas? Really I just needed to vent! I guess I should be glad at least that this wasn't one of my five gallon batches!
I had messed up racking from the Mr Beer keg into my bottling bucket. I'm pretty sure I overdid the dry hops, 3 oz, in a small batch. With all those hops floating around, combined with racking from a mr beer being a pain anyway, my siphon got really blocked up. I ended up just opening the mr beer spigot and running the beer down the side of the bottling bucket as gently as I could, but I'm pretty sure I oxidized it. If thats the case is there really any point in saving this beer? I'm not aware of anyway I could fix it at this point, and time will only make it worse if oxidation is the problem. Any ideas? Really I just needed to vent! I guess I should be glad at least that this wasn't one of my five gallon batches!