How did our first homebrew taste?
After two weeks of aging we opened a few bottles and tried our brew.
I was very impressed with the look of the beer, it was very clear and a very nice brown. There was very little head but a very nice carmel-like smell.
Unfortunately the problems we ran into during the brewing process were apparent in the taste of the beer. The initial flavor was very good, you could really taste the brown ale style. But the back end is what makes this beer hard to drink. There is a sour/bitter taste that follows the sweet ale part, you can just tell that the beer is “off.”
Since our first brewing attempt we have already brewed and bottled our second batch. This time we chose an IPA.
For this brew we fixed all of the problems we had with the last brew. The pictures look very similar to the Brown Ale pictures.
This beer needs to age 6 months before we can drink it. I think we are going to try a bottle or two in February just to see if we did ok.
