Brewshna
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Hi everyone,
i really need help with a beer i will have to throw out. I’m in search of what caused the problem, so I never reapeat it.
I brewed an IPA, actually that treehouse recipe flying around, with some tweaks.
The beer tasted a little strange before going into the fermenter, overly bitter of what im used to.
Then tasted before dry hopping, just after ferm had finished, still weird and off.
I thought give it time and just added 300g of hops.
Now its 40 days in and carbonated, the smell is great but the taste is very muted.
The aftertaste is astringent, chemicaly bitter and dries out the mouth. Leaves something akin to a caustic feeling.
I used a mix of distilled and tap water, my tap water is fantastic quality just quite hard, and added CaCl, MgSo, NaCl and for the first time 2g accorbic acid.
Sparge temp was good, 77C.
Fermentationtemp was good 19-21C. I used co fermentation Lallbrew Verdant and London yeast.
What could cause something like this? I thoroughly cleaned the fermenter and soaked in Starsan.
Please help me find the cause, it’s driving me nuts.
i really need help with a beer i will have to throw out. I’m in search of what caused the problem, so I never reapeat it.
I brewed an IPA, actually that treehouse recipe flying around, with some tweaks.
The beer tasted a little strange before going into the fermenter, overly bitter of what im used to.
Then tasted before dry hopping, just after ferm had finished, still weird and off.
I thought give it time and just added 300g of hops.
Now its 40 days in and carbonated, the smell is great but the taste is very muted.
The aftertaste is astringent, chemicaly bitter and dries out the mouth. Leaves something akin to a caustic feeling.
I used a mix of distilled and tap water, my tap water is fantastic quality just quite hard, and added CaCl, MgSo, NaCl and for the first time 2g accorbic acid.
Sparge temp was good, 77C.
Fermentationtemp was good 19-21C. I used co fermentation Lallbrew Verdant and London yeast.
What could cause something like this? I thoroughly cleaned the fermenter and soaked in Starsan.
Please help me find the cause, it’s driving me nuts.