Recent content by massination

I've wondered that myself. So here's the hops I used in the last 3 beers where the of flavor has been the most noticeable, all lighter beers (kolsch, mexican, american). Also, i buy hops in bulk, so tend to use what i have, and the hops typically last me a while. These hops are probably ~2 years...

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) its all gone now. I used up the last bit in my last batch. But I clearly remember inspecting the bag when I bought it. It was Best Malz German Pilsner malt. Unless the bag itself was mislabeled. I did taste some when i had it though, and dont recall anything off.

The recipe posted was just my last batch. I've had this off flavor in my last 4-5 batches. One was 63% pilsner, 21% corn, 16% vienna. One was 76% pilsner, 24% vienna. Come to think of it, i did a pre-prohibition lager with 6row and 2row that it seems like did not have this off flavor. Could old...

Thanks for double checking in bru'n water on your end. At least we know that part should be fine. I dont have the ability to test PH...dont have any strips or a pH meter. But i suppose if my water is way off now from the report from a couple years back, perhaps my water profile is off. But i...

Unfortunately I am not the best in pinpointing which off flavor it is. The guest I had in my house mentioned grape juice/wine. I thought it more to be sour/bitter, maybe more like a beer that was supposed to be sour, like a berliner weisse or something, not that i've had any of those lately. But...

I forgot to mention that I actually bypassed the faucets as a test. I hooked up a spare coupler with a bit of beverage line on it, and tasted the beer straight out of the keg, and it had the same off flavor in it.

Thanks for the reply. I usually chill down to about 52 before I pitch. Then i pitch and let it rise to 53-54, and usually let it rise to 55ish towards the end of fermentation/activity, just to help speed it up a tad. As for temperature control, i use a brewpi, which has 2 probes, one for the...

So I'm posting on here, because I cannot figure out the root cause of an off flavor in my last 4-5 batches. I've been describing it as a bitter/sour taste. And it doesnt go away with age. I thought maybe lacto infection, but all the beers have the same off-ness to it, and they're all very...

I wonder if fermentation temps could be the cause. I had precise control of the temp, but I fermented on the higher side of the recommended range. Recommended on this strain is 57 to 70. I went with 67 on the Honey Porter from start to finish (Pitched at 67, fermented down to FG at 67) On the...

In my case I was adding sugar just b/c the recipe called for it. In both cases I was adding it in addition to plenty of malt. A pound of sugar in each beer (well, honey in one) for around a 1.065 OG (1.063 on the other) According to MrMalty calculator, both call for 1.1 packs of dry yeast. So...

I know this is an old thread, but I have to add my input. I have brewed about 20 batches of beer, and the only time I have ever experienced a "cidery" beer that I have brewed was when I either used sugar or honey in the beer. 1. A couple years back, I brewed an extract brown ale (5 gallons)...

Yeah, I understand that. For now I didnt want to calculate mineral additions on each one but wanted to keep all numbers the same, for the purposes of seeing how the different calculators would estimate the mash PH differently. So for this "test", I was just temporarily using my starting water...

I just tried EZ Water and got 5.65. So heres the breakdown from lowest to highest: Brewers Friend: 5.34 Beersmith: 5.47 Bru'n Water: 5.58 EZ Water: 5.65 I think the moral of the story is that I should get a PH Meter if I really want to know. :) For now so that I can get this batch...

Yes. In all 3 places I am using the same starting profile. I'm using my report from Ward Labs. So basically all 3 calculators (beersmith, bru'n water, brewers friend) I have currently set with my profile's numbers being the adjusted/target profile (as in the mash water profile), before I've...

haha, so what could I be doing wrong? I just plugged my grain bill and water profile into Brewers Friend, and its estimating 5.34 Mash PH. I am doing a no-sparge BIAB, so on both brewers friend and Bru'n Water, I set the Total Water and Mash Water to be the same (6.97 gallons), and set Sparge to...