TBM Bottle tasting

My curiousity got the better of me. I decided to taste one of the refridgerated TBM bottles.

I'm pretty underwhelmed. It doesn't taste bad, but it doesn't taste good either. It is flat (both in carbonation and taste), a slight hoppy aroma, rather watery taste and body. There are some slightly cidery sour notes. A very short-lived head. On the plus side, I was expecting it to taste more yeasty, after my tasting direct from the fermenter, but this is not the case. There is a pretty thick layer of sediment in the bottle, so I guess we did get some clarification.

This beer tastes a lot like some of the cheaper, nastier beers I drank when I was a student.

Analysis:
I used the help of http://www.mrgoodbeer.com/ to troubleshoot:

1. Too much sediment: Hopefully the racking I did today will help with this.

2. Cloudy/Hazy: I suspect I bottled too soon after the end of the primary fermentation. Hopefully the secondary fermentation will help this.

3. Small, short-lived head: I guess I need to increase the quantity of priming sugar.

4. Cidery flavour: Apparently acetaldehyde is the culprit. Secondary fermentation, and longer bottle conditioning should fix this.

So I'll put this down to gained experience. I might drink the other bottles, or I might not...

Hopefully I can salvage something a bit better from the second fermentation.