It tastes soooo bad!!! :'(
After 10 weeks of baited breath, I can finally confirm that I've brewed my first pour-out worthy batch. I got distracted somehow on brew day and left out half my grain. After I pitched my yeast and called it a day, I discovered my error the next morning. I thought I could solve it by using the left out grain to make a concentrated wort and add that to my working batch. It might have worked fine had I not take "great care" to carefully repeat the oxygenation process when I added my cooled wort to the working batch. It had been working for almost 24 hours at that point and as I have now learned all too painfully, that's just too long.
I hit my sugar numbers pretty closely and when I tried a taste at about week 2 it had only a very slight off taste. Unfortunately, as I have now learned, the longer you let oxygenated beer sit, the worse it gets... So after a 9-week age, I added my dry hop, waited another 10 days, carbonated, and then tasted.... Until last night, the awful sinusitis I came down with last week was so bad, I was spared the truth. In fact, while my taste buds were mostly dead, it wasn't bad at all. But last night I poured a glass and the full taste hit me. Sputter!!!
So, my question is this: Has anyone come up with a "cure?" I thought maybe sugar, or citrus, or, something with a strong flavor might overcome the strong, wet-cardboard kick in the palate. But sugar and lemon juice added to the glass I choked down last night didn't really seem to do anything.
After 10 weeks of baited breath, I can finally confirm that I've brewed my first pour-out worthy batch. I got distracted somehow on brew day and left out half my grain. After I pitched my yeast and called it a day, I discovered my error the next morning. I thought I could solve it by using the left out grain to make a concentrated wort and add that to my working batch. It might have worked fine had I not take "great care" to carefully repeat the oxygenation process when I added my cooled wort to the working batch. It had been working for almost 24 hours at that point and as I have now learned all too painfully, that's just too long.
I hit my sugar numbers pretty closely and when I tried a taste at about week 2 it had only a very slight off taste. Unfortunately, as I have now learned, the longer you let oxygenated beer sit, the worse it gets... So after a 9-week age, I added my dry hop, waited another 10 days, carbonated, and then tasted.... Until last night, the awful sinusitis I came down with last week was so bad, I was spared the truth. In fact, while my taste buds were mostly dead, it wasn't bad at all. But last night I poured a glass and the full taste hit me. Sputter!!!
So, my question is this: Has anyone come up with a "cure?" I thought maybe sugar, or citrus, or, something with a strong flavor might overcome the strong, wet-cardboard kick in the palate. But sugar and lemon juice added to the glass I choked down last night didn't really seem to do anything.