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I lost the stout recipe in my phone so here is the brown ale recipe with the same off flavor: 7 lb pale lem. 1/2lb dark brown sugar 1/2 lb munic malt 1/2lb Crystal malt 80 0.4lb chocolate malt 0.4lb honey malt 1.5oz fuggle hop 0.5oz williamette Safe ale us05

At this point I'm not ruling out hoses, but every time I siphon my hoses soak in starsan for like an hour so I feel like it would kill any mold on there Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

My buddy doesn't use any softener pills or anything to treat his water. I used a yeast nutrient which I heard has zinc and can cause metallic flavors in dark beer so I assumed it was that. But since that batch I've brewed two other dark beers and didn't use it and still ended up with the same...

And no, I've not been able to find a breakdown of the water from the water company here.

I've done partial mash and extract. I use the tap water here in honolulu. My buddy next door just made an awesome porter with the same tap water. In fact none of his beers had had any off flavors like mine and all with just tap water.

Ok so I'm on my 11th batch of beer, and every dark beer I've brewed has the exact same off taste. The on my first stout it had this off taste and i read on the forum that it just needs time to age and the flavors will settle. Well I've been having a bottle about every month over the past year...

Ok, I'm not a total noob. I have about 8 brews under my belt. Today i stepped away while i was steeping my grains. I read some other people that had done this, but my temp was 185+ and for over 5 min at least. I haven't read some one butchering it that bad yet. So do i scrap the grains and...

My wife was the one that found it and she just put the lid back on. Probably not the best option a new piece of sanitized foil would have been better. But yeah it was still foaming

So I started my yeast starter last night. 2L glass beaker with a 2in opening and a foil lid. It ended up being pretty full. When I woke up this morning it had overflown and the foil lid fell off... Meaning it was expose to open air for up to 6-8 hours. Should I scrap this batch of starter to not...

Ok thanks brick!

It didn't taste "as infected" as the last 2. But didn't taste great. It does seems to have a sheen forming at the top of it too

3 out of my past 6 batches have been infected... In suspecting this one is too. What do you think?

Let me know what you find out. I am going through the same thing right now. I bleach bombed everything and also soaked it in oxy clean. Waiting to see if this batch spoiled. Here is my thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/gnarly-smell-again-440575/

I'm digging this, thanks for sharing

Love'n all this advice and encouragement! haha Thanks again. I think you guys are right about bleach bombing everything. Im going to take it to every thing i brew with, and take everything apart. Star San isnt doing the trick to what ever has a hold to my gear. Unfortunately i did the...

The lag time on the stout was about 18-24hours, and the bubbling was slow through the whole process. Same with the holiday ale 18+ hours to start bubbling As far as the water, my local homebrew supplier just said that the water was good to brew with right out of the tap. I don't have any other...

I woke up to this in the holiday ale, pretty sure this is infection. Looking for some confirmation

Thanks again for all these great tips. I'm going to rule out the old star San, make a fresh batch everytime. And the dish soap gets rinsed thoughly. Plus these smells and flavor are pretty pungent so I wouldn't classify them as "off flavors" like some residual soap may have been left. What ever...

Something *may* have got skip for sanitizing on the stout. But absolutely nothing got skipped on the holiday ale. I was obsessive with the holiday ale on sanitizing.

Both beers started right above 1.060 OG. The stout finished at 1.018 ish, and fermenting temp was 68. The holiday ale is only 2 weeks old, I did taste a little, and was not good... Kinda similar to the stout. I'm not ruling out under pitching the yeast. Like I said I have grown in my brew...