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I really appreciate the thought on this one. I will switch my water I use for the starters.

For the starter I used filtered tap water and no bleach in the flasks. I am wondering if my filter is underperforming. It is one from my GE fridge I replace every 3 to 6 months. Could the fact that I do not decant the liquid from the starter prior to pitching be the problem? Additionally I...

I use only bottled (jug) spring water or if I am doing water salt additions I use distilled. I use bleach only in one step of the process, in my bottles. After the bleach I power wash the inside with hot water, soak them in Star-San for 20 minutes, and wash on an anti-bacterial dishwasher cycle...

Recently I have experienced a phenolic taste in my beer two to three weeks after carbonation occurs. The flavor is not there in secondary or at time of bottling. I scrub all bottles soaked in one step then bleach then blasted out under high pressure then starsan before a antibacterial wash...

I entered it in a contest this weekend and it got a 30. My thought and the perception of the judges is that I may have had a mild phenolic infection just starting to show up. My bottle cleaning regimen has been lacking lately so going back to my old, extended method. Definitely not...

I am an all-grain brewer but I still bottle to be able to give beer away to neighbors and friends at work. Recently I brewed a Scottish 80 and a Northern Brown ale, both of which were very malty out of secondary. I had aged the Scottish 4 weeks in primary and 3 weeks in secondary at about 60...