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Success! Just wanted to share an update for closure and for future troubleshooters, but the last batch I made had zero off taste and was fantastic. I used home-filtered tap water from the hose, campden tablets in any water that makes it to the carboy, switched to Kveik Voss yeast, let the wort...

Thanks for all the input everyone! This is really such a great resource. I think general game plan for next brew is to try a Kveik strain, or something with a higher temp tolerability as my fermentations will be always be at room temp, but Kveik sounds really promising, I'll rewash everything...

Thank you! I wondered why so many sources compared the taste to a band aid, I have no idea if that compares, but never thought to smell one. Glad to know it's not just a problem I'm having.

It very well could be too hot when I pitch it, I'll watch that next time. And I don't know why I thought campden took longer to work, now that I think of it, I first tried leaving water out overnight to let chlorine evaporate if that was an issue, and treated it with campden as well just to try...

"Steep climb" is right... Thanks for the info. I know I could google and look into it myself but I'm unable at the moment, any water test you'd recommend? And does it check for chlorine and chloramine, or just chlorine? As far as temp control, I've wondered that too, I'm sure temp can rise...

Thanks for the reply! I do use the filtered water to make the star san solution, but I use tap water to clean everything afterward, I've thought about that too, but it just seems so impractical to clean with packaged water. I haven't tried only PBW, I feel like most the parts have enough...

Great info, thanks! Yeah I'm AG, I used to sparge as close to 170 as possible, I'll admit I've gotten lazy my last few brews and don't wait for it to get that hot, or don't do anything to maintain it's temp once it is hot. With my last one that produced a lot of this bad taste I even just...

That sounds like a great idea, I'll give that a shot!

That'd be super helpful! Is this something they are typically willing to do? Meet with some stranger and try their homebrew?😅

Thanks for the input! Chlorophenols have been my top differential on what this taste is but yeah I’m not sure what else to do with the water aside from buying packaged, which I could do but that’s just such a pain. I forgot to mention, I did try campden tablets in Arkansas, which did seem to...

I’ve been brewing for a couple years, but my brews have been about 50/50 for having the same terrible off taste to varying degrees from “drinkable” to throwing out the batch. I’ve tried varying a number of things but the inconsistency in how it shows up is making it difficult and really...

Thanks! I guess I'll need a new place to plant the incoming ones I ordered. But it's a good problem!

This may be a simple and/or dumb question, but we just moved into a new house and this plant/planter was here already. I bought some rhizomes online and plan to plant them when they get here, but the more I’m reading about hops, the more this plant looks like them! I’d hate to take out an...