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Problem solved I believe. This past weekend I brewed the same Belgian strong/golden/trippel/whatever that gave me problems the first time around and begat my initial post. OG made me smile...came in approx. 1.084 vs the iBrewmaster calc of 1.081. I've never managed to get any batch above...

Thanks again for the responses...still not sure the root cause but at the very least I'm not biased against Challenger hops generally. Either it was a bad couple of ounces or I screwed something up. There was a looooooong gap between the two batches--hops weren't exactly fresh by the second...

Has anyone experienced problems with conversion efficiency with wheat malt and/or Belgian pale malt? I have good conversion/efficiency (relative to my system and skills) with a Maris Otter based bill, but the wheels come off the cart using Belgian pale malt as a base and also if wheat malt is...

Thank you both. I hear you on the over-doing the dry hops. Only trouble is, neither were dry hopped. The ESB fermented out quickly and cleanly and I bottled it after just over two weeks w/o going into a secondary. Wanted to preserve freshness. The strong ale was racked to secondary for...

Can anyone tell me what bad hops smell and/or taste like in a finished beer? I made an extract based barleywine/English strong ale with a pack of challenger pellet hops and much later an AG ESB with those same hops. I'm not the world's best brewer but both were decent, relatively well made...