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Noted. I will see how my third batch turns out. It's fermenting in another room that's a couple degrees cooler than the previous two batches.

After how lame my first two batches are trending I have new found appreciation for the craft selections I have in my market!

In my short time serving beer at a local brewery a friend of mine owns....I come across a lot of folks that have been overseas awhile and comment on how their styles compare to ours.

I think it's kind of funny how I got to the point of brewing my own beer. I'm in Michigan while we have hundreds of breweries here I'd say I'm about tapped out on what's new and what else there is to try. There's really nothing at all my beer stops I haven't tried. As far as going to new...

Thanks for the response. I think my transfer process is pretty clean. The fermentation temp seems to be my biggest issue. I'll try distilled water next time and in the meantime I need to come up with a contraption to cool my fermentation process.

I do the same thing. However, I don't think I'm cooling it down enough. I also don't have a basement. So it appears as though I'll have to assemble a contraption to get my fermentation temp down.

I siphoned from the carboy to a bucket for priming mixing then siphoned to bottles I believe for my next batch I will prime individual bottles with corn syrup. But I do like to get the beer off the yeast cake before bottling. But then again what do I know it's my third batch!

I'm starting to come to this realization as well. I have the ability to do the cooler batch idea you suggested.

I can see that. I will note that aroma before bottling has been fantastic and aroma after a week in bottles is has bee "meh". Possibly some active yeast during conditioning?

I'm fermenting between 68 and 72. It's in a dark spot but it's basically room temperature. I think my problem is I'm not cooling enough after the boil and likely pitching yeast between 80 and 90 degrees.

So I started with a Mr Brew kit and now I'm on my third batch of all grain recipes. I've got a 3 gallon set up. First two batches are in bottles and my first bottles from each batch have that "wet cardboard" like off flavor. I'm not surprised by this but my first batch is in week two of...