Hi. The last 5 or 6 batches haven't result as i intended, i have fixed a lot of little bugs in my process, but i'm still not happy with my beer. Can you drink it?, yes. Do you enjoy it? No.
It's hard to explain all the off flavors i taste. A bit of cooked vegetables or corn (DMS) and some buttery taste (Diacetyl), The beer is kind of watery, with no malt aroma or taste and very very little hop aroma or flavour. I'm not talking about green beer, i'm talking about 2-3 month old beers.
I normally batch sparge, controll the temperatures, the PH is OK, have a ferm chamber (ebay controller), use star san to sanitize (previously i was using iodophor but was able to import starsan via ebay). I clean everythig and sanitize conciusly so i think infection is not my problem.
I keep the wort 1 month in primary and 1 month in bottle. I take gravity measures and they are ok. Been trying only light beers (Common Pale Ale and golden ale).
So, i'm kind of frustrated and lost to what to do now... I have check and re check my process and i don't see any major problem, maybe some little bugs but nothing important so i am starting to think maybe its an ingredient issue..
1 important info, in my country, there are only 2 LHBS and not in my city, so i have to order everything and wait for the shipping to arrive, i have been ordering all-grain kit to the same LBHS but:
- ¿Could it be the cause that the type of grain the LHBS is using is not a good grain? Should i change to the other LHBS?
- They send the grain milled, ¿could the shipping affect the milled grain or the hops? Would it be better if I mill the grain?
- Or simply the LHBS is cheating and sending less or bad quality grain and hops? Yesterday i buy a scale in order to check everything the next time i buy
What else should i look??? Please help
It's hard to explain all the off flavors i taste. A bit of cooked vegetables or corn (DMS) and some buttery taste (Diacetyl), The beer is kind of watery, with no malt aroma or taste and very very little hop aroma or flavour. I'm not talking about green beer, i'm talking about 2-3 month old beers.
I normally batch sparge, controll the temperatures, the PH is OK, have a ferm chamber (ebay controller), use star san to sanitize (previously i was using iodophor but was able to import starsan via ebay). I clean everythig and sanitize conciusly so i think infection is not my problem.
I keep the wort 1 month in primary and 1 month in bottle. I take gravity measures and they are ok. Been trying only light beers (Common Pale Ale and golden ale).
So, i'm kind of frustrated and lost to what to do now... I have check and re check my process and i don't see any major problem, maybe some little bugs but nothing important so i am starting to think maybe its an ingredient issue..
1 important info, in my country, there are only 2 LHBS and not in my city, so i have to order everything and wait for the shipping to arrive, i have been ordering all-grain kit to the same LBHS but:
- ¿Could it be the cause that the type of grain the LHBS is using is not a good grain? Should i change to the other LHBS?
- They send the grain milled, ¿could the shipping affect the milled grain or the hops? Would it be better if I mill the grain?
- Or simply the LHBS is cheating and sending less or bad quality grain and hops? Yesterday i buy a scale in order to check everything the next time i buy
What else should i look??? Please help