IPA thoughts. My HB IPA's have a harsh bitter after taste. I am just now moving away from my chlorinated tap water for brewing. Is my tap water causing this or is it something else I need to fix ? It's not overwhelming and the beer is decent but I want to smooth this out. Ideas?
EDIT: I know you don't know the recipe or hop schedule. I'm just looking for basic ideas. This is not a heavily hopped IPA. I am basically following the hop schedule from Dead Ringer.
Ive made beer once or twice with my tap water which is questionable about chlorined but apparantly not enough to effect my batches to much,however its pretty hard and scaley.It builds up that white and blue caulky stuff on faucet taps or my sink sprayer. Anyway it was harsh at first but not hop harsh because I didnt make hoppy batches with it. It is good though with age on it. Its like the water harshness settles out as well or something. Thats just my concensus on hard straight tap water. I wont drink it though,flouride,cholorine,and whatever chemicals and byproducts that end up in it that will give everybody cancer.Not to mention the miles of old piping it travels in. I dont have a filter system except an incoming sediment filter and my shower filter which I would recommend-breathing hot steamy chlorine fumes is about more toxic as what chlorine you absorb taking a shower in through your skin. Which is something overlooked by most people it seems.