How can i improve my beer?

[TasunkaWitko]

My advice is to not try so many different techniques at once and get down to some fundamentals.

Buy 3 or 4 pre-packaged mixes of interesting-looking IPAs, use a good spring water that you like, and start with that, following the directions that come with the mixes. I like these, but there are a LOT of options out there:

http://brooklynbrewshop.com/beer-making-mixes

Put the engineering books away. This is brewing beer. People have been doing it for 10 or 12 thousand years. Housewives did it. Farmers who could barely write their own names did it. Brew those mixes as if you're cooking an anniversary dinner for your wife, rather than splicing genes for a test tube baby - and add a little love to the process.

Allow an extra week for fermentation; allow at least three weeks after bottling, followed by one in the refrigerator, and see if there's any improvement.

Will it help? Maybe, maybe not. But I am willing to bet that you'll pick up a lot of fundamentals to the whole process and concept that you didn't notice before.

 

[carloslavin]

Put the engineering books away. This is brewing beer. People have been doing it for 10 or 12 thousand years. Housewives did it. Farmers who could barely write their own names did it. Brew those mixes as if you're cooking an anniversary dinner for your wife, rather than splicing genes for a test tube baby - and add a little love to the process.

You just made me want to go hug all my fermenters, man.

 

[luizffgarcia]

My advice is to not try so many different techniques at once and get down to some fundamentals.

Buy 3 or 4 pre-packaged mixes of interesting-looking IPAs, use a good spring water that you like, and start with that, following the directions that come with the mixes. I like these, but there are a LOT of options out there:

http://brooklynbrewshop.com/beer-making-mixes

Put the engineering books away. This is brewing beer. People have been doing it for 10 or 12 thousand years. Housewives did it. Farmers who could barely write their own names did it. Brew those mixes as if you're cooking an anniversary dinner for your wife, rather than splicing genes for a test tube baby - and add a little love to the process.

Allow an extra week for fermentation; allow at least three weeks after bottling, followed by one in the refrigerator, and see if there's any improvement.

Will it help? Maybe, maybe not. But I am willing to bet that you'll pick up a lot of fundamentals to the whole process and concept that you didn't notice before.

I did start with extract, the first 3 batches were extract. I also have already tried kits, none of them produced beer as good as i want to create.

Don't get me wrong but i read a lot and having 14 batches of experience seems like the perfect timing to focus on details like water chemistry and details such as that, what i am trying to achieve is an awesome beer, the fundamentals to achieve OK beer are already there.

I am not trying different methods, maybe i did not express myself very well, the steps i mentioned are the exact same for the last 6 batches or so, i plan on sticking with BIAB and with the practices that i am using now.

I do appreciate the advice thou, leaving the beer in the fridge for an entire week before trying is something i rarely do, i usually wait 2 or 3 days in the fridge...

 

[luizffgarcia]

Nope, a SMaSH is even more simple

lol, yes for sure its just that i heard most people don't like how Mosaic tastes as a bittering hop, that is why i added one more hop to this

 

[TasunkaWitko]

I did start with extract, the first 3 batches were extract. I also have already tried kits, none of them produced beer as good as i want to create.

BBS Mixes are all-grain, dude.

And according to your OP:

i have brewed 14 batches so far and still have not produced very good beer, the good news is i am brewing 1 gallon batches so i am not stuck with liters and liters of not so good beer.

It seems to me that it would be time to learn some fundamentals, rather than to try new things that will make good beer better, but won't make not-so-good beer good.

Anyway, it was just a suggestion. Brew on!

 

[MapleGroveAleworks]

Gypsum accentuates hop bitterness and flavor/aroma. Stop with the spring water and start building your own profiles for the styles you're brewing. Get your water tested, download and teach yourself BruNWater, and be amazed at the results.

Beer is mostly water, why not treat it with the same diligence as the rest of the ingredients?

 

[luizffgarcia]

Beer is mostly water, why not treat it with the same diligence as the rest of the ingredients?

I was trying to get away with just using spring water, but this actually makes perfect sense!