Pluto035
Well-Known Member
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 didn't use any steeping grains in an effort to eliminate the possibility that it could be tannins, but the taste is still there even through the "green beer" flavor since it's only been bottled for about 9 days. I'm pretty much down to something I must be doing wrong in my brewing method but I'm out of idea's on what to try.
So now I'm down to my real question. Any experienced homebrewers in the NW suburbs of Chicago want to sample my brew and help me figure out what's going on? I have a previous batch of my attempt at Ed's Haus Pale Ale that has been bottled for about 6 weeks to try as well.
The recipe I followed for ed's pale ale was from this post I made.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/what-brew-left-overs-124890/
Used Safale05 on this batch, in the primary for two weeks at 60 degrees, then bottled for around 6 six weeks so far.
I used 1.5qt's per lb of grain for the mash. And sparged with 1.5 gallons of water at 175 degrees.
And my most recent batch:
6lbs DME
1 oz Amarillo pellet Hops for boiling
3/4 oz French Strisselspalt pellet hops for flavor
1/2 oz Sterling pellet hops for aroma
WLP002 (no starter).
2 gallons of water in my brew pot, added 2 lbs of DME and brought to a boil. Added in my boiling hops. Boiled for 50 minutes and then added the Strisselspalt and boiled for ten more. Turned off the heat and added the Sterling. The I wisked in the rest of the DME.
Put the primary fermentor in a tub of water held at 60 degrees for two weeks just like the first.
Bottled for 9 days so far.
So now I'm down to my real question. Any experienced homebrewers in the NW suburbs of Chicago want to sample my brew and help me figure out what's going on? I have a previous batch of my attempt at Ed's Haus Pale Ale that has been bottled for about 6 weeks to try as well.
The recipe I followed for ed's pale ale was from this post I made.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/what-brew-left-overs-124890/
Used Safale05 on this batch, in the primary for two weeks at 60 degrees, then bottled for around 6 six weeks so far.
I used 1.5qt's per lb of grain for the mash. And sparged with 1.5 gallons of water at 175 degrees.
And my most recent batch:
6lbs DME
1 oz Amarillo pellet Hops for boiling
3/4 oz French Strisselspalt pellet hops for flavor
1/2 oz Sterling pellet hops for aroma
WLP002 (no starter).
2 gallons of water in my brew pot, added 2 lbs of DME and brought to a boil. Added in my boiling hops. Boiled for 50 minutes and then added the Strisselspalt and boiled for ten more. Turned off the heat and added the Sterling. The I wisked in the rest of the DME.
Put the primary fermentor in a tub of water held at 60 degrees for two weeks just like the first.
Bottled for 9 days so far.