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So I tried making another citra hop tea (1 quart of water to 1/4 oz of citra with a different batch of hops ) and got the same metalic taste at first. Then I tried taking like 2 tbps of the tea into 1 cup of water and got a less horrendous taste . Maybe I over hopped the first time ?

After letting the beard age for about a week I've noticed that the off taste is significantly less and is quite possible to almost drink

Glad to know I'm maybe not crazy

Yeah I mean I want to write it off as its just me. But my wife , who very much enjoys hop forward beers , also agree with me. I'm not sure of Maybe the few hours my hops were in a hot car may have killed them . I mean , I've ordered hops online and they don't ship hops in the most ideal...

Citra hops were stored already vacuumed sealed in a dark cabinet at around 72 degrees . Beer fermented at 70 degrees max; the ambient temp was 64, and using a laser thermometer the fermentation vessel registered 67 degrees .

So I tried hop tea again with another batch of citra hops from another source same metalic taste ....what gives ? I boiled the hops in the 2 qts of water for fifteen minutes .

That may be it, I'll try and experimental brew with minimal amont . I do tend to not enjoy very hop forward beers. For example there are few iPas I can drink and really enjoy

My wife even tried the citra hop tea (just did a fifteen minute boil in water) , and she agreed it tasted like the same metalic taste from the last few batches of bad howmbrew

Well just to see I made a hop tea from citra and it tasted metalic too me . Maybe it's just me , but it seems I found the culprit. Thoughts ?

Well one of them was a cream ale that used centinial for bittering, another was just a mr beer kit that I used citra for a fifteen minute boil. This morning was the same deal.

Stainless steel pot , one of them was just a 2 quart pot this morning the other three were with this 1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00420Z50Y/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 which I got a few months back. Prior to that I'd been doing boils on the stove with the 2 quart , usually extract with...

So I've done three batches of homebrew that all bad citra hops and they have a had metalic flavor. I tried making a small batch of a smash beer with citra to truly see if that was the culprit , and the boiled wort did indeed have a metalic taste . I've not used citra outside of these brews, is...

I went to do a small extract kit today on the stove in a different pot and used ultra hops , which was used in the last three metalic tasting ones, and the wort had the same Metalic taste , are maybe the citra hops the culprit?

Don't think it's water , I've done a dozen brews before with the tap water with no bad results. I brewed two of the last three with nautinghams yeast and 1 with the generic mr beer yeast. Pitched one of then at 70, one At 72 and one at 79, all fermented in a regulated chamber at 68f.

So I've brewed three beers now, one all grain , one partial extract , one double mr beer extract. I keep getting a metalic taste. My water is fine , I've brewed in the past with tap and it was fine . The only the ghat has changed in these last three brews is a new brew kettle...