abatsch
Active Member
After doing some searching on here regarding the bubblegum off flavor I found that it was usually due to high fermentation temperatures. I don't think that this is the case here. I closely watch my temps daily and they stay in the 67-68 range. I have had two beers give me this flavor and aroma. Both of them were bigger beers. One a barley wine and the latest a IIPA. I used a starter with both beers. I used a 1-gallon starter of 1056 for the barley wine with an O.G. of 1.110 and a 2-liter starter of 1028 for the IIPA with an O.G. of 1.090. I used a stirplate for both and the barley wine starter was a 2 step starter. I keg everything and haven't had the off flavor with any other smaller beers (pale, IPA, wheat and red). Any insight to help me fix this would be greatly appreciated.