Wez
Im too lazy to trawl the rest of the Post. Did you use Bobek in the end?
If your brew comes out anything like my version I would strongly suggest you let it mature for a couple of Months.
My first taste at 1 week gave me a real petrol horrible aftertaste. :sick:
1 month later the petrol taste has gone but I was not happy and in fact I disliked it so much that I was going to dump it :cry: .
I then went off in my caravan for two weeks. :party:
Its now a different beer at 7 weeks old Its cleared for a start and the acidic almost chillilike aftertaste has gone. It now has it as a background taste which actually now makes the ale and I now recognise this taste as Bobek.
I ran it through an 8 pint tasting process last night and there were no faults found. Its an accelerator pint (each glass drains faster than the previous one). While it doesnt sail in the same sea as ale from the "Kenny stable" it has turned out rather nice :thumb:
I think that Bobek is a hop which needs some maturing in the keg.
So Keg it up, put it somewhere safe and forget it.