[quote=“Ken Lenard”][color=#000080]It’s possible that the honey in the beer requires a little time to mellow out. Almost every beer I used to make with honey (I don’t use honey in beer anymore) tasted like rocket fuel when it was young. You might just leave it in the bottles for a bit and see how it tastes a month from now, 2 months, 3 months, etc. If you did everything right, you might be rewarded with some very smooth & yummy honey ale.
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I’ll second this. In my early days of extract brewing, I made two different recipes involving honey and both had an unpleasant alcohol flavor to them. I can’t say for sure that only the honey was to blame; I’ve learned a lot about proper fermentation temperature and pitching rates since then. The honey was definitely a factor though.
