tomaso
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the great majority of my beers so far have been on the hoppy side and have come out quite well. The few malty brews that I've done never really came out as I'd like them or as I'd picture (and taste) a malty beer so I'd love some help with finding out why my malty beers don't taste malty.
I've brewed a brown ale, Jamil's irish red, JAmil's Taddy porter, Biermuncher's oktoberfast ale and Revy's leffe clone. None of them turned out well and the malt taste was dull or not present and IMO all of them share some kind of same base flavour that I can't really describe. It doesn't seem to be an off flavour (wasn't detected by others and didn't seem to bother them) but distracts. And there is no sweetness to them at all.
I seem to be doing ok on hitting my mash temps and gravity. I've started treating the bottled water I use about ten brews ago but it also doesn't seem to make a difference.
Brief description of my setup: I brew 10-15L (2,5-4Gallon) batches on a stove top BIAB setup; I do all grain with about 10-15% extract addition due to limited mashtun space; usual mash is 3kg of grain in 12L of water (spring water; started to modify on last 10 brews); I sparge with 2,5L to get about 12-13L boil volume and after cooling with a coil top it up with 3-5L cold spring water. I'Ve used liquid but mainly use rehydrated dry yeast and primary only in a chest freezer at 19-20C (66-68F) for 2-3 weeks and then bottle.
The last two malty recipes that I've tried were Biermuncher's Oktoberfast ale https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=39021 (only change to recipe was a change in hops,i.e. different noble hops and subbing some extract for pilsner due to mash tun space).
After 3 weeks in primary and a month in the bottle it doesn't seem to have any off flavours but it's not the least bit sweet and the malt taste doesn't come through. It's not bitter either but just somehow a dull brew that's kind of drinkable but not tasty.
Revy's leff clone also came out tasting more like alcohol than malt; none of that nice, sweet pilsner taste present. IT did finish a bit drier than it should've (1,010 instead of 1,012) but that's not a biggie. This one at least might get better with time....
Well, anyway, that's all I've got for now and if you have any good suggestions or need more specific info on my process, please let me know.
Thanks!
I've brewed a brown ale, Jamil's irish red, JAmil's Taddy porter, Biermuncher's oktoberfast ale and Revy's leffe clone. None of them turned out well and the malt taste was dull or not present and IMO all of them share some kind of same base flavour that I can't really describe. It doesn't seem to be an off flavour (wasn't detected by others and didn't seem to bother them) but distracts. And there is no sweetness to them at all.
I seem to be doing ok on hitting my mash temps and gravity. I've started treating the bottled water I use about ten brews ago but it also doesn't seem to make a difference.
Brief description of my setup: I brew 10-15L (2,5-4Gallon) batches on a stove top BIAB setup; I do all grain with about 10-15% extract addition due to limited mashtun space; usual mash is 3kg of grain in 12L of water (spring water; started to modify on last 10 brews); I sparge with 2,5L to get about 12-13L boil volume and after cooling with a coil top it up with 3-5L cold spring water. I'Ve used liquid but mainly use rehydrated dry yeast and primary only in a chest freezer at 19-20C (66-68F) for 2-3 weeks and then bottle.
The last two malty recipes that I've tried were Biermuncher's Oktoberfast ale https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=39021 (only change to recipe was a change in hops,i.e. different noble hops and subbing some extract for pilsner due to mash tun space).
After 3 weeks in primary and a month in the bottle it doesn't seem to have any off flavours but it's not the least bit sweet and the malt taste doesn't come through. It's not bitter either but just somehow a dull brew that's kind of drinkable but not tasty.
Revy's leff clone also came out tasting more like alcohol than malt; none of that nice, sweet pilsner taste present. IT did finish a bit drier than it should've (1,010 instead of 1,012) but that's not a biggie. This one at least might get better with time....
Well, anyway, that's all I've got for now and if you have any good suggestions or need more specific info on my process, please let me know.
Thanks!