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Oh Boy, I screwed this up. I was inputting a recipe that I recently brewed into my software and noticed that I misread the boil hop addition. It called for 3/4 oz magnum for 60 mins. I read it as 1/4 oz. (the type is small on the recipe sheet..and I had my readers on...and...hell, I don't...

My oldish bottling bucket and my most recent length of transfer tubing both have a kind of vomity smell that seems to linger in them. This is after long soaks in oxyclean and a bleach vinegar solution. Have had some plasticy batches recently too. Think that is some sort of infection or...

I am frustrated by chlorophenols! I have had these boogers pop up in some batches..and confirmed by judges in competition. I'm talking about the plasticy aroma and flavor version of phenols. I have treated my last 6 or 7 batches with campden and they have been pretty clean. However, after...

I sometimes have an off aroma in my beer, and I've noticed it in other's homebrews as well. I can't really describe it in a way that syncs with the typical descriptors for off aromas/flavors: band-aid, wet cardboard, satun's anus, etc. I usually pick this up in some bottles, but not all...

Greetings, I have noticed an off flavor/aroma in several of my batches. It's not really in your face band-aid-ish or rubber band-ish but maybe is plasticy. I don't know, it is hard for me to describe. But it has been in most of my batches, but not in every bottle in any batch. I find it...