off flavor

So the last few batches i've noticed an odd taste that I had likened to 'chewing on a hop pellet'. This taste got progressively worse and the last 2 batches the fermentation would just go on and on (little teeny tiny bubbles for weeks). I just dumped my second batch, but this time I looked at...

Off flavor and smell with Hoppy beers. Here is a mystery and if you can solve it, I will be forever grateful. I have brewed many west coast ipas and many Neipas. All were good until around a year ago. I know this is not to helpful, as I’m not “educated” in off flavor and smells. So I can’t...

Hi, I recently bottled another batch of weisse beer but this time around things did not go to plan, or rather not taste to plan. Not sure what went wrong but a few things was adjusted unfortunately. All my previous batches came out beautifully. First the brew batch was increased from 23litres...

Hi!! I am experimenting with fermenting directly in keg. The 2 first fermentations where done under pressure. The first one was a stout and good. The second one was a dobble Bock and was ... weird. FG was quite higher than expected. I put it under the pressurize fermentation fault. The taste...

Hi All, I’m wondering if anyone may be able to shed some light on a sulphur issue I’m having. I’ve been brewing BIAB for about 3 years with no sulphur issues. The last 2 batches I’ve made have smelled and tasted great going in to the bottles. But they have both developed a sulphur smell. The...

Looking for some suggestions. All of my brews have the same off flavor. I cannot identify the cause, and it is driving me crazy. The taste is almost a meaty flavor. It is not very strong, but it is in everything I brew - both all grain (BIAB), and extract. The flavor is not present in the...

Hello all, I've brewed two beers now (a hefe and a brown ale) and both have ended up with a similar strange flavor on the back end that I can't place. Both were 5 gallon Craft-a-Brew kits fermented in a Catalyst system, but very little else was the same. Beer 1 (Hefe): - Brewed on the stove -...

This is my first post, so bear with me... I've brewed about 4 or 5 batches (exclusively one gallon) this year so far. Usually an IPA-type of beer but also a porter and two american wheats. Given that I'm fairly new to home brewing, I like the idea of trying the beers weekly after bottling...

I kegged up my first batch of homebrew which was an amber ale. I have a 1.75-gallon keg and a 2.5-gallon keg. My first keg tasted great, however, my second key has an off flavor that I just can't quite place. It's not terrible but not pleasant either. There was probably a month or a little more...

After reading the Brülosophy experiment comparing S05 to 34/70, I decided to give 34/70 a shot. Recipe is an easy drinking smash beer of about 20 ibus, 5.5% abv, lightly hopped with mosaic. Fermented in the basement at room temp (about 65F ambient). I never rehydrate the yeast and it’s never...

Hi folks, I've been brewing for half a decade now (all extract or partial mash), and made the transition to kegs about 2 years ago. Since then, I've made some good hefes, some good oktoberfests, and a cream ale that wasn't half bad. However, I've made half a dozen kits from MoreBeer, and...

I brewed the Lefse Blonde extract kit from Northern Brewer. In primary for about a week, secondary for two weeks, in bottles for two weeks so far. I'm getting a very dry (too dry) finish and some off-flavors I can't put my finger on. Any thoughts as to where I went wrong on this one? Not...

Hello all, I am relatively new to homebrewing and have had great success... until this last recipe. This last one I brewed twice because I realized the first time I really screwed up water adjustments. It ended up tasting like hoppy acidic mineral water with an odd off-white to gray color, but...

i have just brewed my 17th batch on my Grainfather, with generally excellent results . A good mix of ales and porters, but with less success with lighter beers, (lighter coloured not low alcohol). 2 batches, number 7 and number 17, both variants of a pale ale brewed several months apart have a...

Hi, I started to use overnightmash technique in my last brews. In fact, I start the mash around 6:30 and continuous when came back from work around 17:00. Before this I did one using traditional method with the same cooler and mash around 1:30h. Before the cooler was using BIAB for several...

Hello, greetings to everyone. This is my first time posting, but I have been reading tons of threads on here throughout my entire brew so thank you all for the wonderful information so far. I have my very first beer in secondary fermentation in a 5 gallon glass carboy currently, I plan to...

Hey guys, This is now the second batch that I have noticed this, so I’m just curious if I’m starting to go crazy or not. I’ve brewed two batches a little while ago, both are partial mash. First one being an ipa and second being a neipa style with fruit additions. Both were amazing in the keg...

Hello everyone. I´m new in this forum and in the home brewing world too. I have done 5 batches of three different styles, but all of them had a unpleasant flavor. In this point I think that is important to say that in all batches, when I open the fermenter after 2 weeks of fermentation the beer...

Made a vermont IPA using white labs london fog. everything was going great during fermentation, smelled great, looks good and when i took a gravity reading it was doing its thing quickly. I had a really thick and heavy layer of krausen after 1.5 weeks and it was not dropping. I called my local...

So I started brewing a couple months back so my experience isn't massive. But I've read John Palmer, and try to stick by "the book." In terms of all the brewing literature/knowledge I've obtained as far as proper procedure. But with that being said on to what I am sure is a "noob" problem...