properbrew
Active Member
I am having issues with my dark beers. I have brewed around 15 all grain batches and my dark beers just don't impress me. The IPAs, pale ales, blondes, and ambers I make all taste great. But when it comes to brewing porters and stouts they end up falling short of my expectations. I have brewed EdWorts porter, a variation of EdWorts porter, and a stout and all of them have been kinda bland, low taste, little to no roastiness, just disappointing. And I don't know if this makes sense or not but it seems like the dark beers do not carbonate (force carbing in a keg) as well as the light beers. I can see carbonation bubbles but the beer tastes almost flat.
After doing some preliminary research, I think it may be my water. I use my tap water ran through a PUR water filter to brew all of my beers. I do not make any adjustments to my water currently. Any suggestions or tips for brewing darker styles?
Some more information, I batch sparge, do full boils and ferment in glass carboys in a temperature controlled environment. I normally wait at least a month to keg my darker beers. They do taste a little better as time goes on but still nowhere near where I would like them to be.
After doing some preliminary research, I think it may be my water. I use my tap water ran through a PUR water filter to brew all of my beers. I do not make any adjustments to my water currently. Any suggestions or tips for brewing darker styles?
Some more information, I batch sparge, do full boils and ferment in glass carboys in a temperature controlled environment. I normally wait at least a month to keg my darker beers. They do taste a little better as time goes on but still nowhere near where I would like them to be.