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No valve on brew kettle, and have been super-anal with cleaning and sterilizing at all times. I'm doing a cheaper recipe this time round, but back to the exact process I was using before this latest batch to see if that removes the issue I had. If it does I'll know where it likely came from...

I opened the fermenter once to dry hop. I've made previous beers with a similar grain/hops profile and nothing even remotely like the "off" taste and smell this time, which one of these days I'm sure I'll have the brewing vocabulary to describe properly. Nor anything close to the colour that...

Well whether it was oxidation, infection, or something else, after 11 days in the fermenter with no improvement time to admit defeat on this one. :( I even bottled one a few days ago, to see if carbonation would change things at all, but turned out just as disgusting as in the fermenter...

I've never tasted wet cardboard so I have no idea... o_O

The 5 previous brews I've done I've always had a tiny taste both after boil (once cooled) and after a few days in fermeter (impatience ;) ) and it's never tasted super horrible. This basically has me needing to wash my mouth out or risk throwing up... Anyway, we'll see what it's like after a...

"Wet cardboard" was the most common descriptor I'd read/heard, no?

If it is this (and obviously fingers crossed) it's by an extreme amount the most horrendously tasting 3 day old beer I've ever sampled from a fermenter in my short brewing experience!! :eek:

Ahh okay, thanks for that clarification, appreciated. (and I am presuming it's oxidation causing the horrible taste/smell, I'm new to this and contamination, I may know more leaving it for a few more days and seeing what eventuates... like a school science experiment ;) )

I obviously take your point, but as I wrote before when putting just the first wort into the fermenter hot there was zero issues, and from reading online others doing no chill in a fermenter (there's quite a few) they believe the heat/steam from the hot wort would kill anything of issue...

No chill method works great for many Australians ;) and I have been overly anal about sanitation every time. ;) (and I know a cube would be better than fermenter but loads of reports of brewers doing the latter fine, I don't think that's the issue, at least doing it with one wort batch)

All good, any suggestion helps, gets me thinking .

Ahh, good suggestion if that works fine if I do another split batch!

I will definitely be giving it until the end of the week and taste again, and maybe it will just be that I was very early tasting and it changes, it was just so horrible a taste it didn't seem normal. Future brews I'm sticking with 10L until I get back home and can invest in a larger brew...

As I wrote, doing it previously over 2 days, just the first wort hot, worked great.

Seems like my latest batch is oxidized, 3 days in fermenter and a sample tasted & smelled absolutely disgusting, not 100% sure what the "wet crdboard" taste is but I have the feeling this is probably it :( , leaving it for a few days just to see if anything changes... So, putting my programmer...

Jumped right in with all grain (BIAB) due to lack of options where I am currently... and after reading this article: https://homebrewanswers.com/minimum-equipment-all-grain-brew/ Initial issues that I mostly addressed (though only on my 6th brew so still working many things out): - Really low...

My current solution... ;) Dressing up my fermenter ;) by deeve007 posted Oct 19, 2019 at 1:30 PM

One thing I am noticing, when I remove my grain after the mash, the water volume in my pot is around 50% even after allowing to drain for a while... I let drain for about 5 minutes then begin to sparge. Is this normal for most brewers, or should I be getting more wort left after mashing and...

Hey guys, So my current brew, with a target OG of 1.077, I hit 1.060 only. My previous brew I hit both OG and volume on the nose, so it seems like it's not something I'm doing that's down to my general process (though obviously I will review that too just to do all I can). A solo commercial...