I've got quite a bit of brewing under my belt, never had a problem - being doing all-grain until just recently when I tried to modify a recipe with DME from all-grain (lets cut down the rime in a brew day)
The brew was plagued with small misapps from the beginning, this was supposed to be easier (and it is) but I mashed the specialty grains and boiled for 25 mins before I remembered to add the DME and then screwed up the hop additions - oh well lets just see how the mistake turns out.
The taste prior to fermentation was very nice, excited to try. I used reused WLP001 (3rd generation- pitched at 65F, OG 1.053) that I had from another batch, I made a mini starter and tossed it in and no activity for almost 3 days. I've had reused yeast that took a day or so to take off and after going to the brew store to buy the backup yeast the beer was peculating HOWEVER this guy didnt - so I bought a new vile and of course it took off and starting to blow through the airlock, so I made a blow off hose (sanitized it in starsan) and let it feed into a bucket of star san & water.
2 weeks later, taste it...awful, not beer. I'm thinking the lack of fermentation during those days could be the culprit. The flavor seem almost bitter/sour with foul smell ---- this beer is hopped well so I'm trying to differentiate the hop bitterness from the off flavor. My wife has the premium pregnancy palet and describes it as sourish maybe almost ammonia like. I've read through the off flavors and trying to identify the culprit but just cant put a finger on it - anyone has an idea? Infected, yeast was bad?
The brew was plagued with small misapps from the beginning, this was supposed to be easier (and it is) but I mashed the specialty grains and boiled for 25 mins before I remembered to add the DME and then screwed up the hop additions - oh well lets just see how the mistake turns out.
The taste prior to fermentation was very nice, excited to try. I used reused WLP001 (3rd generation- pitched at 65F, OG 1.053) that I had from another batch, I made a mini starter and tossed it in and no activity for almost 3 days. I've had reused yeast that took a day or so to take off and after going to the brew store to buy the backup yeast the beer was peculating HOWEVER this guy didnt - so I bought a new vile and of course it took off and starting to blow through the airlock, so I made a blow off hose (sanitized it in starsan) and let it feed into a bucket of star san & water.
2 weeks later, taste it...awful, not beer. I'm thinking the lack of fermentation during those days could be the culprit. The flavor seem almost bitter/sour with foul smell ---- this beer is hopped well so I'm trying to differentiate the hop bitterness from the off flavor. My wife has the premium pregnancy palet and describes it as sourish maybe almost ammonia like. I've read through the off flavors and trying to identify the culprit but just cant put a finger on it - anyone has an idea? Infected, yeast was bad?