aoverturff
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Hi all. I'm not exactly a beginner, as I've been doing all grain brews for over 2 years now, but I have a nagging question. Every lager I've made, plus the last two cream ales that i've done have come out with an 'odd' flavor. I don't know any other way to describe it. In the past, I've made a cream ale that was very good. It tasted 'clean'. I left it in the secondary at lager temps for about a month. However, the last two cream ales that i made were handled the same way, but came with the 'odd' flavor. However, my last batch was too large to fit in the 5 gallon secondary, so the leftovers went into a quart bottle with an airlock in my pantry (probably 78 degrees). When the ones that were secondaried cold were bottled, they had the 'odd' flavor, but the quart secondaried hot in the pantry had the clean flavor of the first batch (which is why I made two more in the first place). What could be the cause of this odd flavor i'm getting? I ask now because I have another lager beer in primary fermentation right now. I want it to come out 'clean'. what should my next step be?