Recent content by BeaverBarber

I too have been recently getting a plastic taste in my beer, and it's only been since I got my counterflow chiller and march pump set up. The taste is so subtle that I'm the only one that seems to be able to detect it. I can only detect it because this flavor is in all of my recent beers. I...

I have a youtube video showing how to use my new equipment from MoreBeer.com. I ordered their hopback, counterflow chiller, and march pump. The most important part of the process is the screen used to filter out the whole hops from your brew kettle to the hopback. I found out the hard way that...

I brewed almost exactly to the way that it was specified by the brewer on Can You Brew It even though I'd never do a recipe with this amounts of dextrine malts normally. I was afraid it would come out too sweet. I was also afraid to add so few hops at the end of the boil. Generally speaking I...