Stillraining
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I just bottled up a Black Butte Porter clone and I'm considering dumping it out.
Here is the mystery.
I brewed this batch up and everything seemed fine until end of fermentation..That's when the Cidery taste developed. So I figured I had a infection and considered dumping it right then and there but made a call to my LHBS first. They asked me all the normal questions like how is your sanitation practices?, did you use any sugars? etc..
Not being able to nail down a for sure culprit they told me to bring in a bottle for them to evaluate . I dew off about 2/3's of a bottel and caped it, tossed in in the front seat of my PU and headed to town about 20 miles away. When I got there we opened it up and the cider taste was completely gone. They said bottel it up it will be a great beer!... Well I turned from bummed out to quite excited but left wondering whet happened to turn it around. The next day found me happly bottling the batch using 4 oz of cane sugar as bottle carbonation. A week later I tried a bottle. The cider taste was back with a vengeance.
I did not use any sugar in this grain bill it was all DME.
So what the heck is up?...Did oxygen in the 2/3's bottle for a couple hours do something to purge or neutralize the cider taste?
The only mistake I can think of that I made with this batch was boiling with the lid on. But there doesn't seem to be any Sulfur DMZ notes.
Here is the mystery.
I brewed this batch up and everything seemed fine until end of fermentation..That's when the Cidery taste developed. So I figured I had a infection and considered dumping it right then and there but made a call to my LHBS first. They asked me all the normal questions like how is your sanitation practices?, did you use any sugars? etc..
Not being able to nail down a for sure culprit they told me to bring in a bottle for them to evaluate . I dew off about 2/3's of a bottel and caped it, tossed in in the front seat of my PU and headed to town about 20 miles away. When I got there we opened it up and the cider taste was completely gone. They said bottel it up it will be a great beer!... Well I turned from bummed out to quite excited but left wondering whet happened to turn it around. The next day found me happly bottling the batch using 4 oz of cane sugar as bottle carbonation. A week later I tried a bottle. The cider taste was back with a vengeance.
I did not use any sugar in this grain bill it was all DME.
So what the heck is up?...Did oxygen in the 2/3's bottle for a couple hours do something to purge or neutralize the cider taste?
The only mistake I can think of that I made with this batch was boiling with the lid on. But there doesn't seem to be any Sulfur DMZ notes.