Caribou Slobber Question

Northern Brewer General
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Hello all,

This is my first try at home brewing, tried the Caribou Slobber with the dry yeast. Followed the recipe and had an Original Gravity of 1.050 and a final (after 2 weeks, stayed the same for 4 days) of 1.020. Didn’t get as low as I was expecting, but after reading around on here I felt more confident. I left it in the primary another week after the 1.020 final gravity and racked to bottles with the 5oz of priming sugar one week ago. Because I am so excited about this beer I had to taste one today. I cracked it open, decent amount of carbonation, but it was rather sour. From my 1.020 final gravity i was expecting the beer to be on the sweeter side. Does this mean I mussed up big time somewhere, or am I just tasting the suspended yeast in the bottle that hasn’t settled yet? (the beer was quite cloudy).

Any help would be great! Thanks!

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This one takes a while to condition in the bottle, and the flavors will smooth out over time. Try it in another week and the flavors will be different. After a month or two it will taste like a completely different beer. This is one of the brews where the flavor changed the most from the first bottle to the last.

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Yeah, it took a good 3 weeks for the hops to settle back into the other flavors. Once they did, it was really good!

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Thanks guys, guess I’ll wait and see!