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Had a particularly bad beer day yesterday.

Got home yesterday and stuck a bottle of this <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="www.beoir.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=3001">viewtopic.php?t=3001 into the fridge to try it out while watching the footie. It was only week in the bottle but even still, it was rank. My first disaster! The fact that I called the beer Wit Take 2 is ironic because it's not even funny how bad this was.

I think this was mainly due to the lemon zest I had added. The beer just smelled like washing up liquid, and the taste wasn't far off it either.

I was quite disappointed as most accounts of people who homebrew tend to be that all their beers are at least drinkable. This one unfortunately was not. Could of swore I felt a little tear in the corner of my eye as I poured the Fairy Liquid Clone down the plug hole.

Anyway, after the disappointment of my palate cleanser (literally!) I decided to grab a beer from the fridge that I had recently picked up from Molloys. It was a Mongozo Coconut Beer. The thinking behind buying this beer was that I love Coconut and I love Beer, so.....if the two were put together it could only be a win win situation. Well that was my reasoning. Oh how wrong was I!
I'd moved away from Washing Up Liquid onto Shampoo.
Ya know that taste you get in your mouth when you're having a shower and a bit of the tropical scented shampoo that you knicked from the other half inadvertently gets into your mouth? Well that's the best way to describe Mongozo Coconut Beer.
More beer down the drain.

At a loss at this stage I tried to console myself with a Flensburger Weizen. It's an ok beer but I'm not sure whether I'm just sick of it at this stage due to the amount of it I've drank recently (trying to stock up on swingtops) or whether my tastebuds had been given a right battering in my two previous attempts at chilling with a beer.

Anyway, Italy beat Bulgaria, so failing a total capitulation of the Irish team in their next two matches Ireland have a good chance at a playoff spot so all's not lost.

&amp;quot;Atticus&amp;quot;:1pciwp9n wrote: Had a particularly bad beer day yesterday.

Got home yesterday and stuck a bottle of this <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="www.beoir.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=3001">viewtopic.php?t=3001 into the fridge to try it out while watching the footie. It was only week in the bottle but even still, it was rank. My first disaster! The fact that I called the beer Wit Take 2 is ironic because it's not even funny how bad this was.

I think this was mainly due to the lemon zest I had added. The beer just smelled like washing up liquid, and the taste wasn't far off it either.

I was quite disappointed as most accounts of people who homebrew tend to be that all their beers are at least drinkable. This one unfortunately was not. Could of swore I felt a little tear in the corner of my eye as I poured the Fairy Liquid Clone down the plug hole.

Anyway, after the disappointment of my palate cleanser (literally!) I decided to grab a beer from the fridge that I had recently picked up from Molloys. It was a Mongozo Coconut Beer. The thinking behind buying this beer was that I love Coconut and I love Beer, so.....if the two were put together it could only be a win win situation. Well that was my reasoning. Oh how wrong was I!
I'd moved away from Washing Up Liquid onto Shampoo.
Ya know that taste you get in your mouth when you're having a shower and a bit of the tropical scented shampoo that you knicked from the other half inadvertently gets into your mouth? Well that's the best way to describe Mongozo Coconut Beer.
More beer down the drain.

At a loss at this stage I tried to console myself with a Flensburger Weizen. It's an ok beer but I'm not sure whether I'm just sick of it at this stage due to the amount of it I've drank recently (trying to stock up on swingtops) or whether my tastebuds had been given a right battering in my two previous attempts at chilling with a beer.

Anyway, Italy beat Bulgaria, so failing a total capitulation of the Irish team in their next two matches Ireland have a good chance at a playoff spot so all's not lost.[/quote:1pciwp9n]

Sorry to hear your beer!! May it RIP.... My last batch i ruined with orange peel. I went a bit overboard with itt, was rank...thought it was a good idea at the time, but alas it wasnt!!!

Yeah I think I got ahead of myself with the experimenting.
On the plus side, I only brewed a small batch of 5L so at least I won't have to through so much away. I'll leave the other bottles for another week and then taste again, but I'm expecting much.

&amp;quot;Atticus&amp;quot;:2bccy6ml wrote: Yeah I think I got ahead of myself with the experimenting.
On the plus side, I only brewed a small batch of 5L so at least I won't have to through so much away. I'll leave the other bottles for another week and then taste again, but I'm expecting much.[/quote:2bccy6ml]

Try leaving it a couple of months and then try it again. Youve nothing to lose. The lemon flavour may mellow out. If it's not infected, a week in bottles is too short to conclude that it's ruined.

&amp;quot;Diablo&amp;quot;:2vsjcv13 wrote: Try leaving it a couple of months and then try it again. Youve nothing to lose. The lemon flavour may mellow out. If it's not infected, a week in bottles is too short to conclude that it's ruined.[/quote:2vsjcv13]
The only reason I think it's ruined is because I made the exact same beer last time except for the addition of the lemon and it didn't taste anyway near as bad as this after a week.
But yeah you're right, I should just leave them for another few weeks and try again. I'll need more bottles for my next brew though, and that means more Flensburger! <!-- s:? --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt="" title="Confused" /><!-- s:? -->