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I can't think of any commonalities-we order from different stores in different parts of the country. And we never did actually cross-taste our beers-but it is so striking that we would describe it the same way. It its almost a sickly sweet smell-with a taste second. It could almost be ok-I've...

My fermenter is a better bottle. My kettle is an enameled canning pot. My hoses could be old/non-food grade, although I've used them for many batches, even one since, and didn't have this problem. Bottling bucket is food grade, and has been used before and since. ?????Anything else...

Thanks, everyone. Yeah-it's not just my gruit-my friends' stout, wheat and scottish had it, too. I don't know what's common-not water-I live in COlorado, they live in MN and tried different waters to get rid of the problem on their end. They used bleach to sanitize, I used starsan. My...

I just brewed a batch of gruit and wound up with a smell, and to a lesser degree a taste, of bile in the beer. It's been in the bottle about 8 weeks now, and was in the primary for a month then went to bottles. Other than that, it's great. My friends actually had several batches-scottish ales...