Maine Homebrewer
Grandmaster Brewer
I've been kegging for a while using forced carbonation. Recently I inched up the batch size to allow putting some brew into bottles to share, and I've been using carb tabs to give them bubbles. The problem is that all the bottled beer has that same 'tang' that is the main reason I haven't brewed a single extract batch since I started brewing all grain. I'm sure many of the people I would share the brew with would not notice or care, but I do. That's the whole reason I started putting a six pack into bottles per batch, so I could have something to share. The problem is that I won't drink anything I've bottled. It tastes like ass (figuratively of course), and I don't feel that it is an accurate example of what I have been brewing.
Before kegging I did bottle my first few batches using a boiled half cup of corn sugar and they tasted fine, but that's not the same as dropping a few sugar pills into the bottles.
Is it just me or has anyone else ran into this?
Before kegging I did bottle my first few batches using a boiled half cup of corn sugar and they tasted fine, but that's not the same as dropping a few sugar pills into the bottles.
Is it just me or has anyone else ran into this?