I purchased the usual ingredients to make 2 batches of Coopers Inkeepers Daughters Sparkling Ale. I have made many batches without any problems, it's hard to get the recipe wrong if you follow the simple instructions. I washed everything thoroughly and instead of sterilizing with the iodine solution that I usually use, I used Morgan's Peroxide sold at Barrons.
I added the ingredients as per recipe and noticed a distinct lack of froth when topping both fermenters to the 23L mark. The recipe smelt very malty which was unusual. Both brews literally finished bubbling in about 3 days which was quite quick for what I expected. Bottles were washed, rinsed, dried then sterilised for carbonation.
I waited 2 weeks after bottling and opened a beer from one batch to sample. It tasted so alcoholic it was undrinkable. I sampled 2 more beers from both batches with both batches affected.
I'm not sure what happened, I feel something might have been wrong with the malt as the only other ingredients I needed other than the can of Coopers was 300g of White Sugar and warn water. Now I have over 50 longnecks of beer to dispose of.
My sons friend told him he'd had a similar problem with a batch he'd made after getting ingredients from Barron's recently.
Hopefully it's an isolated incident. It's just a bother to have to go through and empty, clean and sterilise all those bottles plus having to purchase all new ingredients again to replace the 2 batches.
Ingredients purchsed:
3 x 1Kg Light Dry Malt
2 x Coopers Inkeepers Daughters SA
1 x Morgan's Sterlizing Solution
