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Hi all,
I have a questions about bottling my beers.
I have completed loads of kits and its strange but my first few kits were great - the rest have gone down hill. My AG brews - in cask - all are great but AG is now out till we move house with more room.
There seems to be this awful taste and smell - not sure what - but no matter what I can't seem to shift it. Before bottling this smell and taste is not present. (Is this just a typical kit home brew 'twang' or do I have a problem? To me the beers are undrinkable).
My first few brews were done in a primitive manner. I let them ferment in the room with no control. Since my house is very cold most of the time (apart from one the stove is in then its too warm) I decided to adopt some control. I use a STC controller to now measure the FV contents and this turns on an heater to maintain temperature. The temperature control fluctuates b down by say 0.4C so Im happy with that.
At Christmas 2014 I decided to do a few beers family and friends. I did 3 batches. One batch went into a corny - and still tastes fine. The others went into bottles to condition.
I added sugar into a bottling carboy and put the beer on top. I then bottled. (The bottles were cleaned internally and externally using VWP and then StarSan - so were the caps).
In order for carbonation I decided to place them on an heat pad with heat belt wrapped around (since the house is very very cold during the daytime) and set the temperature to about 21C I think it was. I did this the same on the 2 bottled brews. The STC temperature probe was attached to the body of a bottle in the middle of them all.
Now I don't know what temperature the bottom of the bottles climbed to as the probe was reading up the bottle so in order for the temperature setpoint to be achieved the heaters were on until the volume of beer was heated up on the controlling bottle.
Do you think this could have created the 'funky' awful taste and smell. Could this heating of the bottles (at their base where the yeast sat) have got to too hot and killed it and then it create this taste and smell?
PS, the bottles were sat on this heat for 2 weeks then removed and placed outside.
I have left them until now to see if they recover but to be fair they are awful and Im pouring them down the drain.
PS, the kits were a Festival Pilgrims Hope and Muntons Winter Warmer.
Can you guys please advise as Ive had loads of kits (say 5 now) where they are just wasted and I don't know where the issue is.
I have a questions about bottling my beers.
I have completed loads of kits and its strange but my first few kits were great - the rest have gone down hill. My AG brews - in cask - all are great but AG is now out till we move house with more room.
There seems to be this awful taste and smell - not sure what - but no matter what I can't seem to shift it. Before bottling this smell and taste is not present. (Is this just a typical kit home brew 'twang' or do I have a problem? To me the beers are undrinkable).
My first few brews were done in a primitive manner. I let them ferment in the room with no control. Since my house is very cold most of the time (apart from one the stove is in then its too warm) I decided to adopt some control. I use a STC controller to now measure the FV contents and this turns on an heater to maintain temperature. The temperature control fluctuates b down by say 0.4C so Im happy with that.
At Christmas 2014 I decided to do a few beers family and friends. I did 3 batches. One batch went into a corny - and still tastes fine. The others went into bottles to condition.
I added sugar into a bottling carboy and put the beer on top. I then bottled. (The bottles were cleaned internally and externally using VWP and then StarSan - so were the caps).
In order for carbonation I decided to place them on an heat pad with heat belt wrapped around (since the house is very very cold during the daytime) and set the temperature to about 21C I think it was. I did this the same on the 2 bottled brews. The STC temperature probe was attached to the body of a bottle in the middle of them all.
Now I don't know what temperature the bottom of the bottles climbed to as the probe was reading up the bottle so in order for the temperature setpoint to be achieved the heaters were on until the volume of beer was heated up on the controlling bottle.
Do you think this could have created the 'funky' awful taste and smell. Could this heating of the bottles (at their base where the yeast sat) have got to too hot and killed it and then it create this taste and smell?
PS, the bottles were sat on this heat for 2 weeks then removed and placed outside.
I have left them until now to see if they recover but to be fair they are awful and Im pouring them down the drain.
PS, the kits were a Festival Pilgrims Hope and Muntons Winter Warmer.
Can you guys please advise as Ive had loads of kits (say 5 now) where they are just wasted and I don't know where the issue is.