I am making my first batch of beer right now. It has been fermenting for just over a week. I was getting ready to transfer to bottles when I noticed a few things.
I still have yeast colonies on top of the brew with what I guess are yeast bubbles.
I then put a little of the brew into a glass for a taste and it smelled like medicine and had a sweet taste to it. I've done searches and found that the medicine smell might be a chlorine problem. I used spring water so it would not of come from there but I probably had some tap water in my fermenter from rinsing it out, but that would of been minimal.
I used a kit I received for christmas, Mr Beer. I followed the directions that came with it but after doing a bit more reading I'm thinking I should of not followed the direction that came with the unit.
Should I try to re-rack this beer or just dump it and start over? As of right now my plan it to bottle some of it and dump the rest and start over.
Thanks Ransom