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I am fairly new to brewing, just bottled my sixth beer. I have made three pale ales and three stouts. The stouts have come out perfect but all three pale ales have a weird smell and taste. I used three different recipes but they all had the same off taste. I was hoping someone local with...

I don't think I did anything different with the yeast. For the bad ones I used dry with two and liquid with one. With the good ones I used dry with one and liquid with the other. No starters with any of them. They all had pretty rapid fermentations with a thick krausen. I can go back and look at...

That was something I was concerned about, so the last beer that came out good (milk stout) I left for a little over three weeks. The three that were bad I cant remember, I think with the two hearted clone I transfered to the secondary(only one I used a secondary on) after a week, but I know...

The first partial mash brew I did was a stout which came out perfect, then the next three (rye ipa, heffe and two hearted clone) all have the same off taste. Its hard to describe but its kinda an apple taste. The first two I did a week apart and thought they would clear up but it has been a...