3 out 4 beer batches were still good!

So last October 20th I brewed 4 5Gal beer batches in a row.  I really didn’t even finish in the same day.  Anyways, I got busier and busier with work and kept putting it off to keg them.  It then go really cold and I didn’t want to freeze outside while trying to clean kegs and figured that it’d be cold enough that it would suspend the yeast so that the beer wouldn’t get ruined over the winter.  Well, today a friend of mine and myself kegged all four batches.  We tasted them all too.

Pilsner, Hefe, and the IPA were all great.  Flat, but still good.  They tasted how they should without carbination and didn’t give off any funny flavors.  The stout on the other hand was.. well..  rancid.  It first smelled like rotten millk, to me at least my friend didn’t smell it like that.  We each took a mouth full, swished it around and swallowed.  Followed by spitting out whatever we could.  As I write this, I can still smell it as if it’s around me.  /shutter…

My friend works at a brewery and he is taking a sample of the stout in and is going to ask the lab tech to test it and see what’s in there.  Maybe it’s still salvageable, but i doubt it.  Over all, I’m happy with 3 of them being good.  I’ll let you all know what turns up in the stout once I find out.  Should be pretty interesting.  :D