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    Help with IPA/PA weird taste

    "Sounds like you are screwing around with your water a ton. Maybe try the kiss method." Best Advice in the world. Pissed me off at first....made sense in the end. Spring water, (Basically RO) and a bit of gypsum, and my latest hoppy APA was thin tasting and hoppy. This is a good thing...
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    My Herms

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    Help with IPA/PA weird taste

    Thank you all for your help. I am going to try going back to the basics with the water. This is my report from Ward laboratories on the bottled water I am using: Calcium 5 Magnesium 1 Sodium 2 Chloride 0 Sulfate 0 Bicarbonate 13 I searched for how can I make a pale ale with...
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    Help with IPA/PA weird taste

    Hello, I need some expert help. My pale ales and IPA's are not turning out. Funny thing is, my cream ales, blond ales, and all of the other light beers are great. That tells me my process is good. The hoppy beers have a soapy, all of the tongue slick type of feel. I don't believe I have the...
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    Water Report + ? = IPA

    ok got it. I am putting 10 gallons of distilled water on my Kentwood bottled water order form. Alkalinity sounds like the major fix here as long as the PH is right. My water is the last major thing to fix. I recently made a fermentation chamber to keep one degree. I have had problems...
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    Water Report + ? = IPA

    My last IPA I am calling Soap a Dope. Me being the dope since I am the only one who will drink it. I got a water analysis done from Ward Labs to find the problem: Ph 8.9 Total Dissolved Solids 229 Na 70 K...
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    Saaz anyone?

    Ok, I guess I hate Saaz. I did not know that before I ordered 10 oz of the nasty @#!@#$. It is like ginger maybe? Yuk!! I made 10 gallons of Cream Ale with nothing but Saaz and I thought I did something horrible wrong with my system. Then I tried a Dos Equis after, which I don't like...
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    Best Hangover Cures?

    If you forgot the water and Anvil (thats how I spell it) the night before, Claritin D 24 hour, the leagal speed, as soon as you can function well enough to find were the wifey hid it.
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