Hello, started brewing last year and have now made 25 batches this far. Have had the occasional bad batch before but never multiple. In may i made an dr smurtos golden ale that was good after 2-3 weeks but then became undrinkable after 4 weeks, i remember it had a burning throat feeling, peppery? While waiting for this one i made 3 more batches.
2# Bells two hearted ale dry hopped with citra: much flavour from the hops(early) but then turned bad, very bitter(~50ibu)
3# Blonde ale dry hopped with amarillo: hard to describe the taste, just bad, no hop or malt flavour at all
4# Belgian saison: some belgian taste then quickly became mostly flavourless, tart?
These beers doesn't get better with time but not really worse either.
I am lost trying to find what the problem can be, have not changed anything significant this year. have been thinking about the bad batches i have had in the past and recall they tasted similarly and remember one having a taste of smoked ham.
After these 4 beers i started to know something was wrong, replaced all the plastic and made an vienna with mosaic, now 3 weeks later it's mostly flavourless. All these beers have been tasting good at bottling, i have been extra thorough with cleaning and star san, yes i always take apart the spigot and clean it.
My process while bottling is the same as before the bad beers, transfering my beer to the bottling bucket trough the spigot using a hose -> boiling priming sugar and add while stirring -> bottle the beer with a spring loaded wand and yes i clean and star san bottles, bottling bucket, hoses.
I don't see any infections at bottling, no gushers at all, nothing weird floating at the surface in the bottles, carbes up fine. I don't see any air in the tubing while transfering or bottling. i have an temp controlled fridge and mostly use fermentis us-05, 2 weeks fermentation.
All suggestions are welcomed.
2# Bells two hearted ale dry hopped with citra: much flavour from the hops(early) but then turned bad, very bitter(~50ibu)
3# Blonde ale dry hopped with amarillo: hard to describe the taste, just bad, no hop or malt flavour at all
4# Belgian saison: some belgian taste then quickly became mostly flavourless, tart?
These beers doesn't get better with time but not really worse either.
I am lost trying to find what the problem can be, have not changed anything significant this year. have been thinking about the bad batches i have had in the past and recall they tasted similarly and remember one having a taste of smoked ham.
After these 4 beers i started to know something was wrong, replaced all the plastic and made an vienna with mosaic, now 3 weeks later it's mostly flavourless. All these beers have been tasting good at bottling, i have been extra thorough with cleaning and star san, yes i always take apart the spigot and clean it.
My process while bottling is the same as before the bad beers, transfering my beer to the bottling bucket trough the spigot using a hose -> boiling priming sugar and add while stirring -> bottle the beer with a spring loaded wand and yes i clean and star san bottles, bottling bucket, hoses.
I don't see any infections at bottling, no gushers at all, nothing weird floating at the surface in the bottles, carbes up fine. I don't see any air in the tubing while transfering or bottling. i have an temp controlled fridge and mostly use fermentis us-05, 2 weeks fermentation.
All suggestions are welcomed.