Recent content by ChubbyChipmunk

Just curious to see how your brew turned out? Mostly because I live in the same town and also have been trying to make juicy northeast ipas haha

Made my first all grain batch...an american IPA. It was the best beer I've ever made. After a week in the bottle it was outstanding. After two weeks it was phenomenal. Around the 4 week mark it started to go down hill fast. It is now a completely different beer and its pretty bad. I expected...

I might have my first drain pour ever! Bottled last night (with a recipe given to me from local store with old ingredients). It tasted awful. Ill obviously give it time, but yuck. No more local store for me

The recipe had mostly dme. I only pit about a quarter of the lme in. Hoping to have minimal twang

Well i had one more extract kit sitting around. I scaled it down to 3 gal so i could try a full boil. I used a starter. I meticulously sanitized everything. I added the LME at the end of the boil. It was light lme. Its bubbling away in my 62 degree basement. Hopefully this will be twang free

I am switching to all grain, and have been having issues with extract "twang". I don't have a larger brew lettle yet and was gifted an extract kit. The extract is already old, so i was just wanting to experiment with a full boil with the kit, just to see if it made a differnce

For one reason or another, i have found myself with a 5 gallon extract batch that i would like to scale down to 3 gallons because i dont have the equipment to do a full boil. My concern is with the yeast. I have liquid yeast and will do a starter. Should i only pitch 60% of the starter? Or just...

How would you describe the taste/smell???

Thanks for all the replies. I really dont think its an infection. I am very meticulous with the sanitation. Theres never been any residue on any bottles or equipment I use. I have used a secondary before, but i did not with my most recent batch. I think its misleading when i said "sour"...

Whatever im tasting is definitely not yogurty. Most kits have been from northern brewer. Others have been a local shop. So maybe it was old extract, i dont know. one time, i made a "maple red" that the local shop packaged. It tasted very strongly of the "taste". The next time i was at the...

I have read a lot about "extract twang" but that seems to be a sweet taste. Mine is not real sweet. More sour than anything. I have everything i need to switch to all grain but the in-laws bought me a few extract kits so i made those first...

Most of the things i have changed were because inwas trying to fix the "taste". Thought it was my water...switched to bottled Thought it was my sanitizer...switched to starsan Thought maybe secondary was too big...got a 5 gal carboy The taste has appeared with liquid and dry yeasts, nottingham...

Sorry for the extremely vague description, but... I have made about 20 extract batches so far and about 15 of them have had this weird smell and taste....not terrible, but not something ive ever tasted before or could even describe. Ive read every "off taste" article there is. Its not...

i wanted to make cider last night, but didnt want a full 5 gallon batch. so i threw 4 gallons of apple juice in the fermenter but forgot to scale down the sugar i added to it, leaving it at 2 pounds. anyways, its bubbling away in there but im concerned that its going to be very strong. can i or...

thanks...i made a starter last night and its bubblin away