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On that occasion, I brewed a stout with his kettle (it's what I had ingredients for and it came out pretty good) while simultaneously brewing a 2.5 gallon all extract IPA on the stove with another of his kettles. It wasn't a super vigorous boil, a little less than I would do at home. Over...

I've been struggling with this issue for about a year myself. It's exactly as they describe, all the subtle flavor and aroma just drops out of the beer, harshly bitter and vaguely malty, not worth drinking. There's always a darkening, some as drastic as pictured, but not always. I didn't have...

Was the chiller the issue? I too began having this problem months ago and have tried everything I can think of (except getting a new chiller) to no avail

I've been having this problem for months. Whereas my beers were fine for my first year of brewing when I was less careful. It's most extreme in my IPAs. Nothing I do seems to help. Most recently I switched to RO water, adding minerals, to rule out my water source. A friend with a keg and co2...

Any luck figuring this out? I have come across tons of discussions on message boards with pix and descriptions matching this same problem but nobody experiencing it ever seems to figure out what causes it