So vile that you ended up dumping your bottles, emptying the keg, etc?
I'm a known regular to my local shop that sells some homebrew stuff, mostly winemaking and kit beer stuff, but I can get cleaners, caps, bottles, corks, wine enhancer, buckets, DME, etc from there, which is what I use them for, because their yeasts, extracts and few ingredients they have are on the shelf far too long for my liking. Case in point, they were getting rid of a whole bunch of beer kits for cheap prices because they were expired. One of the sales folks chucked me a pilsner kit that had expired for no cost at all.
At this stage, I wasn't an all grain brewer and I had only done two beer kits (loads of wine making though, which is why I was known at the shop at the time) and so I didn't know too much, but I gave it go. Bad idea!!
I don't think it was a great kit to start, but being expired, I'm sure it was worse. Fermented fine though, well I thought it had. Actaully had krausen within a day and gravities were okay. Following the kit instructions, I went into conditioning when it said to put it there, but the beer had a strangish green colour. Thought it needed a fair bit of conditioning, put into secondary carboy, conditioned for about a month and bottled it up. Had cleared mostly (definitley not pilsner clear, but ale cleared). Tasted it when I bottled and thought it was 'off' but couldn't quite tell how. Few months later, it had carbed okay, gave it a pour and went "YUCK"!!! Every bottle!! Had that wet dog/wet cardboard/something soggy and mouldy - oxidised or infection taste. I was good with sanitising from all my wine experience, but without any beer experience I couldn't save it. With my experience now, I may have been able to save that kit with better yeast and fermentation temperatures, but who knows. Maybe it was just a gross bag of extract.
What's the worst thing you've brewed?
I'm a known regular to my local shop that sells some homebrew stuff, mostly winemaking and kit beer stuff, but I can get cleaners, caps, bottles, corks, wine enhancer, buckets, DME, etc from there, which is what I use them for, because their yeasts, extracts and few ingredients they have are on the shelf far too long for my liking. Case in point, they were getting rid of a whole bunch of beer kits for cheap prices because they were expired. One of the sales folks chucked me a pilsner kit that had expired for no cost at all.
At this stage, I wasn't an all grain brewer and I had only done two beer kits (loads of wine making though, which is why I was known at the shop at the time) and so I didn't know too much, but I gave it go. Bad idea!!
I don't think it was a great kit to start, but being expired, I'm sure it was worse. Fermented fine though, well I thought it had. Actaully had krausen within a day and gravities were okay. Following the kit instructions, I went into conditioning when it said to put it there, but the beer had a strangish green colour. Thought it needed a fair bit of conditioning, put into secondary carboy, conditioned for about a month and bottled it up. Had cleared mostly (definitley not pilsner clear, but ale cleared). Tasted it when I bottled and thought it was 'off' but couldn't quite tell how. Few months later, it had carbed okay, gave it a pour and went "YUCK"!!! Every bottle!! Had that wet dog/wet cardboard/something soggy and mouldy - oxidised or infection taste. I was good with sanitising from all my wine experience, but without any beer experience I couldn't save it. With my experience now, I may have been able to save that kit with better yeast and fermentation temperatures, but who knows. Maybe it was just a gross bag of extract.
What's the worst thing you've brewed?
