Recent content by robgoodwin

I was having the same problem and I changed two things. One, I started running my grain through the mill twice at my local homebrew shop. And two, even though I was batch sparging, I drain the mash tun rather slowly. I went from byeing 10-20 points under, to right on. Now I have to take...

I have been thinking of doing something similar. I have an old Fine Woodworking magazine with a armoire I have been wanting to build forever. Figured I could blend my 2 hobbies together. I am really looking forward to following this thread. Nice work!

The wort cooled to about 80 pretty quick via my immersion chiller, but I did let it sit for about 6 hours in the fermentation fridge to get down to 65 before pitching. I did use one of the aquarium pumps with the sterile filter. Perhaps the filter is bad? Wonder if I got something there. I...

I used WLP013. I did not make a starter, but pitched 2 vials into 5.5 gallons of wort. I had it sitting in a compartment constructed around a dorm fridge with a controller set to 66.

No, I used pellet hops and not so much as to get an off flavor from it I believe. I guess I will sanitize like crazy and try again. Thanks so much for all of the input.

Thanks for all of the replies. What is funny is that the sheets where very detailed, but did not mention DMS. The Vegetal checkboxes were marked on the scoresheets, but not the DMS. Which made me think this was something other than DMS.

I just got my score sheets back from a small club competition and all the judges commented on the strong asparagus taste/smell. I’m not sure what I am more concerned about, the asparagus, or my palette not picking it up. I’m pretty anal about sanitization and feel like I have a decent process...