hello all,
I recently did up my Oktoberfest, first time doing one fully lager-ed, did one last year using a ale-lager hybrid yeast as I did not have the proper lagering set-up. I set up my recipe using beersmith and a material list based off of Summit Brewing’s Oktoberfest. They list everything but percentages, hop addition times and so forth. I went through my process, everything went well, tasted fine going into the keg, let it do its final lagering in the fridge for a month and have recently taken the first tastes. My question is i’m getting a citrusy taste off of the front end. Just as it hits my tongue and if I hold it in my mouth for a while. on the swallow it tastes exactly like I was expecting. not trusting my taste I had my roommate taste it and he pointed out the same thing with out me mentioning it myself. I don’t think its from my grain bill so am assuming its from my hop additions. Summit, uses Tettnang, Northern Brewer and Saaz. I used an oz of each, doing a five gallon batch. started with Tettnang, did late additions of Northern and saaz. wasn’t expecting citrusy, grapefuit tones from any of these. If you have any ideas or need more information let me know. I’m wondering if this might settle out over time. Don’t really plan on drinking it for a while still.
