Hello all... just wondering if anyone else has run into this scenario.
I was given a whole bunch of old grolsch bottles a little while back and decided to use them to bottle my last few batches. One batch was a big hoppy ipa with a ton of nice hop aroma. I bottled half the batch with the swing tops and half the batch with my normal twleve oz glass capped bottles. I drank one of the capped last night and it was great (well, great for my brewing), wonderful aroma and all. I drank one of the swing tops right after and it wasn't nearly the same! Almost no aroma, and I could swear a little less hop flavor? Anybody ran into anything else like this?
Both bottles were brown...I'm not using the green ones. I checked all the gaskets before I used the grolsch bottles, none were cracked, so I don't think that's it...and it was well carbed. Both aged for the same time. Any ideas?
Very odd. Anyways, tonight I'm going to pour out 2 side by side and compare. I'll be sad if it really is different as I have about 100 of these swing tops that I'd no longer use.