Sweet Beer

[crashbobo]

I just tried a bottle of beer I bottled 4 days ago. The carbonation was getting there, but the beer was still pretty sweet. I was just wondering if this is what "green" beer tastes like and if some of that sweetness will go away. I think a little more carbonation will help as well as just allowing the beer to age, I just couldn't wait 2 weeks to give it a try :)

[Stodbrew]

What's the style of the beer? And what were the specs of the recipe?

[crashbobo]

It was one of the True Brew extract ingredient kits that my local homebrew supplier sells. The kit was for a Continental Light. I put a different kind of hops that was higher in alpha acids into it than what came with the kit. I brewed 5 gallons. OG was 1.036 and final gravity was 1.010. Let me know if you need more info to give me a diagnosis :)

[mmmBeer...]

After 4 days you probably still taste some of the sugar you used to carbonate your batch. I have yet to have a batch that is fully carbonated in less than 7 days. (Unless you are storing the beer at a high temp.) I would guess that in the next 6 days you would see a vast improvement on the taste.

[S.F.B.]

I agree with mmmbeer. Give it some more time. Should be really good in another 7-10 days.

Patience will reward you.

[crashbobo]

Tried the beer again. It is much better. The sweetness mellowed out and I can taste the hops a little now. It turned out pretty close to a cream ale. I gave some of it away to my friends and family. Maybe I can get my dad to quit drinking Busch :) I think my next batch is going to be a Scotch ale. I toured the Schlafly brewery in St. Louis this weekend and they had some awesome Scotch ale to sample afterwards. Now if I can just convince my wife that I NEED a fridge to turn into a kegerator...