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They can't help it, their taste buds have to develop haha. The second beer I ever made I messed up pretty bad on it and it came out way to watery and with a hot fusel alcohol taste. So I took a six pack to a party just to get rid of some of it and a friend of mine who's a bud light drinker...

I've been getting recipes from books and online. Since my note taking has not been the best I'm not sure if I changed anything from the first few recipes. If I did it probably would have been increasing the boil size from 1.5 to 2 gallons. I also didn't control the fermentation temps very well...

Thanks for the help so far guys. I appreciate it a lot. I really want to get this figured out and start controlling my recipes better. I'm going to try a few beers from my batch that's been aging a while and try to do a better job describing the flavor/aroma. I guess that's another skill that...

I guess I didn't realize how much of a change that was. I have been hoping to the same 60 minute schedule even though I've been doing late additions. Could this be causing my flavoring and aroma hops to be contributing more bitterness and less taste? Edit: Does boiling with more water than the...

It's present in all batches... I haven't made a starter for any of my batches so far, but I've only used liquid yeast twice. I use San-star to sanitize and I don't fear the foam haha. I've been using tap water for all my beers up until this last batch and it didn't change the result. I honestly...

I'm pretty sure it's not Diacetyl. It's just bitter, which is why I was thinking water, but the distilled batch I just did kinda ruled that out. And the 60 degrees I mentioned is the temp of the water bath for the first week or so. I was under the impression that the temp would probably be...

Sooo. I'm starting to become a little desperate. I've been trying to figure out what the extra aftertaste in my beer is. I've brewed about 6 batches so far and all of them have had the same funny taste carbonating. I though it was my water so I switched to distilled for this last batch. I also...

B.S. in Physics, but I work as an optical engineer.

I have to say that was the most interesting cover of the Beatles I've ever heard.

Just to let you know, I had the harsh taste in my extract hefe as well. It was really noticeable even early in the carbing process.

Well I bought about 6 gallons of distilled water and I guess I'm just gonna give it a try. The spring water available locally doesn't seem ideal and I had no idea where to find the store brand water online. At least I'll know if the taste is water related. Wish me luck! I'm brewing a recipe from...

Thanks for the warning. I have a feeling it's not very easy to track down what minerals are in my DME. I'll probably try brewing with whatever local spring water they sell at the supermarket around here before I jump all the way to distilled water. Maybe it'll lower the mineral content enough to...

I suspect that the harsh, bitter after-taste in all my batches is being caused by the water as well. I tried one bottle that I found from my first batch (around 4 months ago) and the taste was very prevalent, so I'm pretty sure it's something that won't go away with time. When I brew my next...

It's fine that they melt quickly. The water around the carboy acts as a thermal buffer. It lowers the temperature of the beer in the carboy gradually as the whole system comes to equilibrium.

I dunno if it helps, but if you fill washed and dried tuna fish cans with vegetable oil it'll attract the earwigs. You just need to bury it up to the rim in the dirt. The earwigs can climb and fall in and then can't get out. Seemed to lessen the earwig problem we had in our basement. We just...

Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna try out the half pound of crystal and 2 pounds of Vienna. Just picked up everything today and hopefully I'll end up brewing up a batch this weekend.

Soo, I have some left over supplies from my last brew day and I'm wondering what beers I can make with them. 6lbs golden light DME (LD Carlson) 2oz hallertauer hops pellets (3.8% AA) I know I'll need to make a trip to the brew store to pick up some more yeast/specialty grains but I at...

Made my first batch of Apfelwein today. :-) 12,923 + 5 = 12,928

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I attach the clear plastic tubing to my bottling bucket with sanitizing solution in it and attach the racking cane to the end of that. I just let it run through the spigot into the hose and cane to sanitize them all Then I swap out the cane for bottling wand and do the same thing. Seems to work...