tranceamerica
Well-Known Member
Ok...
tonight I racked my first PM batch and it has a HORRID medicine taste - I can only imagine this means a bacterial infection...yuck.
Someone please dear god help me, it looks as if I've killed off two batches in a row.
These are my first PM batches & both are ruined. I can't imagine them ever being drinkable. I'm only keeping them because I can't bear to throw them away yet.
I've never never never made a bad batch of beer until I started this PM thing. all my ME brews have been excellent. What am I doing wrong?!?
Oh, and I tasted the ASSTringent beer again...tonight...and yeah, it's still astringent...maybe a bit less...but maybe I also tasted the medecine taste in it too?!? blah.
what could I possibly be doing different/wrong with the PM batches, versus my ME batches? I"m going to soak all my equipment overnight in sanitizer and for my next batch - it will be ME & I will be very very anal about everything being clean.what else can I do?!?
Then, I need some help figuring out what I'm doing wrong w/PM...before I try it again.
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Ok, for the batch I racked tonight - it had a very watery taste (no malt flavor). I attribute this to the fact that I had to crack the grain myself with my GD rolling pin. and of course, it had the medicine taste too.
The second batch - same recepie - but with properly cracked grain - it seemed to have a bit more mouth feel, but was astringent (too hot on the sparge) and I think it also tasted a bit medeciney. yuk.
tonight I racked my first PM batch and it has a HORRID medicine taste - I can only imagine this means a bacterial infection...yuck.
Someone please dear god help me, it looks as if I've killed off two batches in a row.
These are my first PM batches & both are ruined. I can't imagine them ever being drinkable. I'm only keeping them because I can't bear to throw them away yet.
I've never never never made a bad batch of beer until I started this PM thing. all my ME brews have been excellent. What am I doing wrong?!?
Oh, and I tasted the ASSTringent beer again...tonight...and yeah, it's still astringent...maybe a bit less...but maybe I also tasted the medecine taste in it too?!? blah.
what could I possibly be doing different/wrong with the PM batches, versus my ME batches? I"m going to soak all my equipment overnight in sanitizer and for my next batch - it will be ME & I will be very very anal about everything being clean.what else can I do?!?
Then, I need some help figuring out what I'm doing wrong w/PM...before I try it again.
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Ok, for the batch I racked tonight - it had a very watery taste (no malt flavor). I attribute this to the fact that I had to crack the grain myself with my GD rolling pin. and of course, it had the medicine taste too.
The second batch - same recepie - but with properly cracked grain - it seemed to have a bit more mouth feel, but was astringent (too hot on the sparge) and I think it also tasted a bit medeciney. yuk.