kaiser423
Well-Known Member
For a total of 3 5 gallon batches.
BM's Porter, JZ's Amber and an AHS Brown.
The finish just had this massive smoky, phenolic flavor on all of them.
I had aged the brown 2.5 months, and the porter about 3 weeks after bottling and the taste just kept the same. I could taste it in the amber, which I left in the fermenter ~2 months hoping that it might clean up somehow. It always seemed a bit worse after bottling, but didn't get worse with time.
Right now I'm blaming it on my water source; they switched us over in the Spring, and I think that the levels are off/chlorine way up.
I have the grains stout and cream ale hanging around, but they're about 2-3 weeks old now since I've been scared to brew anything as I tried to give the beer I had time to finish off and diagnose what's going wrong. I'm hoping that the grains haven't gone stale.
I'm still trying to truck along, but man is it rough to dump 3 full batches, the whole pipeline, like $75 down the drain.
*sigh*. My previous two batches were meh since my thermometer was off (mashed high) and so they ended up sweet. Not batting so good lately, but I gotta keep on trying!
Maybe I should just make an extract brew or something.
BM's Porter, JZ's Amber and an AHS Brown.
The finish just had this massive smoky, phenolic flavor on all of them.
I had aged the brown 2.5 months, and the porter about 3 weeks after bottling and the taste just kept the same. I could taste it in the amber, which I left in the fermenter ~2 months hoping that it might clean up somehow. It always seemed a bit worse after bottling, but didn't get worse with time.
Right now I'm blaming it on my water source; they switched us over in the Spring, and I think that the levels are off/chlorine way up.
I have the grains stout and cream ale hanging around, but they're about 2-3 weeks old now since I've been scared to brew anything as I tried to give the beer I had time to finish off and diagnose what's going wrong. I'm hoping that the grains haven't gone stale.
I'm still trying to truck along, but man is it rough to dump 3 full batches, the whole pipeline, like $75 down the drain.
*sigh*. My previous two batches were meh since my thermometer was off (mashed high) and so they ended up sweet. Not batting so good lately, but I gotta keep on trying!
Maybe I should just make an extract brew or something.