Almondbury Old and my other ales...

[Orkney_Rob]

Munton's IPA current tasting:

It is still pretty cloudy, but getting slowly better.

Smell - quite yeasty

Taste - very, very dry. A little sour and yeasty - but the yeast may be confusing my taste buds... nope, that is sour.

I am hoping that the yeastiness will bugger off over the next couple of weeks and the hop flavours will come through with the homebrew flavours subsiding... but am starting to worry that it won't happen. The fact it was sitting doing nothing for a couple of weeks is making me think that the batch may have failed... how long do I leave it before giving up - I have the AG kit arriving this week so could use the barrel space for the new venture....

[CrownCap]

I'd probably give it another couple of weeks tops. If by then is still not tasting good then there's no point forcing yourself to drink bad beer. Just ditch it and make way for another little AG creation

[Orkney_Rob]

Aye - that sounds about right... may give it until the weekend and see how things are doing... life is most certainly too short for bad beer though!

[Wez]

The Almondsbury Old is a really tasty kit, it's a good warming pint for this time of year.

I've picked up one of these kits to do during an AG brewday on Wednesday, time is tight at the moment so it's an easy way to turn a single 5 gal brewday into a double, looks like this kit is highly regarded!

Need to upgrade to 10 gallon brews though, I'll write it on my Santa list