IPA at 10 Weeks....Loosing Flavor?

Northern Brewer General
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On 9/11 I brewed Jamils Evil Twin, extract version. I don’t recall exactly when I got into the keg but the first month of drinking this beer was great. I had been looking for something similar to Santa’s Private Reserve and this beer is a close match. Lots of malt and lots of hops…just a great beer. Over the last few weeks the beer just isn’t as good as I remeber. It’s almost as if it has lost some of it’s malt flavor. The alcohol taste is more than I remeber, it’s still a good beer just not the great beer I remeber from a month ago.

Could the beer have changed this much over the last few weeks or has the newness just worn off and I am seeing (or I guess tasting) it differently?

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over 10 weeks, yes a hoppy beer will change.

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You could add a little dryhop in the keg, freshen it up again. Won’t help with the malt, though.

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I know hops flavor can be lost over time but is this also true of malt flavor?

Mike

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drink faster? share more?

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yeah, I’ve also noticed that hoppy IPAs can have an incredible brightness to them when they are young which fades over time. The hoppiness definitely changes/decreases over time, and those changes appear to influence the perception of malt in the brew.

Definitely drink it up in its prime.

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ive noticed hop flavor getting weaker over time. also IME the bitterness mellows a bit