Any ideas/possibilities for my tasting notes? Could it be because of the flipping of when I added the hops to the boil? To the fact that I used tap water? Could it be that my temperature for the fermenter stayed around 73?
Congratulations on your first!
If I understand correctly, you reversed the order of your hop additions. If you added 4.5 oz. of hops in the first 5 minutes of a 60 minute boil, that could definitely produce an unpleasant bitterness.
I experienced the same thing with my initial attempts at making "hoppy" beers, adding way too much bittering hops. You should rebrew the same beer with the correct hop schedule, and I think you'll be amazed.
BTW, Nice head!
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