ultravista
Well-Known Member
I cannot pinpoint the recurring taste in my beer but is always there.
Regardless of equipment, all grain, partial grain, or extract, yeast strain, filtered, bottled, or unfiltered water, kegged or bottled - there's an underlying taste that is present. Not necessarily bad, but there.
For example. I brewed an all grain version of Dog Fish Head's Indian Brown Ale with Ringwood yeast. The taste was there.
I brewed Yoopers all grain Dead Guy Clone and a Brewcraft Dead Guy kit with Pacman yeast. The taste was there.
The taste was there before using a plate chiller and it's there now.
I've fermented at 70 degrees and now ferment at 60 degrees in a refrigerator, still, the same underlying taste.
The only real common denominator is StarSan and the glass carboys I ferment in. I don't leave StarSan in the fermenter, all but a little foam.
I filter my water through a $30 charcol filter, the type of filter many use to filter the whole house water. But I have also used bottled water and I can detect the same taste.
It's driving me crazy, trying to figure out what it could be.
My uneducated guess is that it must be the taste of yeast. Althought it doesn't taste "yeasty" if that makes sense.
I haven't tasted another homebrewers beer so I have nothing else to base it on.
Any ideas?
Regardless of equipment, all grain, partial grain, or extract, yeast strain, filtered, bottled, or unfiltered water, kegged or bottled - there's an underlying taste that is present. Not necessarily bad, but there.
For example. I brewed an all grain version of Dog Fish Head's Indian Brown Ale with Ringwood yeast. The taste was there.
I brewed Yoopers all grain Dead Guy Clone and a Brewcraft Dead Guy kit with Pacman yeast. The taste was there.
The taste was there before using a plate chiller and it's there now.
I've fermented at 70 degrees and now ferment at 60 degrees in a refrigerator, still, the same underlying taste.
The only real common denominator is StarSan and the glass carboys I ferment in. I don't leave StarSan in the fermenter, all but a little foam.
I filter my water through a $30 charcol filter, the type of filter many use to filter the whole house water. But I have also used bottled water and I can detect the same taste.
It's driving me crazy, trying to figure out what it could be.
My uneducated guess is that it must be the taste of yeast. Althought it doesn't taste "yeasty" if that makes sense.
I haven't tasted another homebrewers beer so I have nothing else to base it on.
Any ideas?