rossm Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I took advantage of the freight free offer before Xmas and ordered in some English Bitter and LDM, neither product is available in Alice so it was a god send to be able to get hold of some without mortgaging the house to get it freighted here. I make a double brew most times and so used two of the sets of ingerients and brewed as normal, I spent quite a bit of extra time in cleaning and sanitizing the fermenter and bottles, I thought because it is so hard to get good ingerdients I would make sure I didn't have a dud.....well I cracked the first sampler a couple of weeks ago and it tasted like the dregs of an Afghan camel drivers wash water! I was very dissapointed but refused to panic, It was one of the last bottles bottled and I thought perhaps I had a bit much yeast carry over and only being a month old it may subside, I have tried a couple since, and though not as bad the taste was still there, I tried one last night and it is getting better but I can still taste the slight influence of the trub, I have put the rest of the ingredients on for a new batch so hoping that one will be OK, The tainted one seems to be getting better so I hope it will improve, I intend to leave it another month now berore I try again. It is very dissapointing, the brew looks great, good head retention, good colour just tastes like......[pinched] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 If it is getting better (even a little) then that is a good sign. It should eventually become more drinkable. If it was an infection then it would likely get worse over time. Good luck with the current batch. Also, I checked the How to Brew book for "dregs of an Afghan camel drivers wash water" taste. It doesn't appear to be a common off-flavour [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I came here to read about hops [lol] Thats a shame mate the English bitter is an awesome kit, close second to the IPA in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossm Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 ...yeah sorry about that Graham....I didn't realise what forum I was in until after I had posted it!......Hopping has two "P's" though......[roll] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossm Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 ....I've been in the desert too long Hairy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH1525226084 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Not the dessert Ross [lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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