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I have found that my beer had that "Homebrew" flavor as well when I first started. You can get that from a scorched mash at the bottom of your kettle where the sugars are being burned by direct contact with your boil kettle being hotter at the bottom. I have recently used a steam jacketed kettle...

It is going to take around 3-4 weeks in primary before you will get off flavors from dead yeast.

I'm brewing a basic American pale ale this weekend. 10lbs marris otter 1lb crystal 20 1lb crystal 80 1oz centennial 60 min 0.5oz cascade 15 min 0.5oz cascade at flame out Simple but delicious for a spring beer

I opened a bottle of this yesterday and it was finally carbonated. It was actually over carbed. Tastes great though. It has lost some of the hoppiness from the age but it is great. I recommend this beer to anyone who preferres coffee flavored black ipa's

Yes I did mix it up very well. I'm positive that I added the mixture as well. I am going to let it go a few more months before i pop them and add to the a keg. This is definitely my last bottle batch. Now that I have the kegs they will be the only way I go. I'm just afraid that the beer will...

I brewed a 5 gallon batch of black IPA OG 1.091, FG 1.023 15.5 lbs marris otter 1 lb Crystal 60L 1lb of Carafa II and a 2L starter of London Ale yeast It was in the primary for 2 weeks and secondary for 1 week. I bottled using Cane sugar (4.2oz). The bottles have been stored at...

Berg, You could always reverse the line you add your CO2 into. Add the CO2 to your out (diptube) line after you pull your sample to clear the beer from that line if you need to adjust your CO2. This will prevent your leftover sample from before from being in your new sample