darby_ross
Active Member
Over the past year I have brewed many batches of beer. Some taste great but the majority have the same taste. The best I can describe is a somewhat astringent/medicinal taste. Generally when I take samples before bottling or kegging the beer taste great but soon after that the taste begins out subtle then becomes more pronounced after weeks of aging. After losing so many batches I began to systematically change the way I cleaned, brewed and bottled. First change was with sanitation, I started using pbw and starsan. Still got the same taste. I then switched to bottled water. Same taste. I have changed from plastic fermentation buckets to glass, I have replaced all tubing with silcone, I have gotten better thermometers for temperature controll while steeping grains, I have gotten a freezer with temperature control to have a set fermentation temp. With all these changes I still get a beer that has the same taste. I generally brew partial exact kits and with those kits I have different types of yeast both dry and liquid. Any suggestion would be much appreciated.