Off flavors after priming?

[Martin]

If I recall correctly, that was one of LordEoin's Recipes: ( Coopers ) English Bitter + 1kg Light DME + kit yeast + 30g of Cascade Hops added after a week. Brewed to 21 liters.  SG 1047  FG 1006.  It tastes so good that I already had a pint straight out the fermenter  haha Really love it!

[darren996]

Hi Martin

I had the same with my first cooper kit, the blonde ale.  I used the carbonation drops and got a slight sour apple flavour.  This got less pronounced as time went on. I did the coopers lager kit next but used dextrose instead of the drops.  The lager kit didnt have off flavour. Someone on youtube suggested that the carbonation drops can give off flavours

[beerfly]

It could be the kit.  did you use the coopers brew enhancer?

sounds like Acetaldehyde. i always get that on the canadian blonde kit. time does not really help improve it either unless you are going to leave it a very long time.

[Martin]

Yeah, I used  Coopers Beer Enhancer 1 which was included in the Starter Kit. The thing is that I had a sample of the brew just before priming and bottling and the taste was great. Something must have happened during the priming & bottling process - maybe as darren996 pointed out, it`s the carbonation drops? I used 1,5 instead of 1 for priming. ( per 500ml bottle )

[Martin]

Just an update on my Australian Lager - two weeks later, all the nasty off flavors are gone and the beer tastes very good! Probably nothing to be very proud of but not worse than the commercial lagers. So, it was just a question of time and me being very impatient... By the way, I am very plesantly surprised by the taste of my second batch - the English Bitter dry hopped with Cascade. The taste is just too good to be true   Hope Ian at Mottly Brew has some in stock as this kit is just crying to re-brewed ASAP. Definitely recommended to beginners like myself as easy to brew and the result is amazing. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

[LordEoin]

Awesome! I'm glad both kits worked out well for you
Another few good coopers kits incluse their australian pale ale and IPA kits.
Both are great with some carapils or crystal and dryhopped with some nice fresh hops.
Play around!

[Martin]

Thanks Eoin, I will definitely give the Australian Pale Ale a try! As for the IPA I already have Bulldog's Rajas Reward IPA waiting to be brewed next, as soon my Easter Brew chocolate stout is bottled on Sunday.

[LordEoin]

Raja's Reward is supposed to be quite nice. Not tried it though.