Questions tagged [off-flavor]
An undesired flavor in the final beer. The flavor may be undesirable in any style, such as soapiness, harsh astringency, or may be out of place in the style being brewed, such as fruitiness or diacetyl in a lager.
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Possible to de-oxygenate and de-skunk a beer?
Say a beer has been exposed to too much oxygen and it is now giving off cardboard and stale flavors (oxygen-related off-flavors).
Say another beer has been exposed to too much light and is now ...
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Help : White wine tastes like soap
So I was planning to make some white wine, I started with some green grapes and after checking the pH it was too low so I added some citric acid which made the juice became too acidic, to bring down ...
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Consistent clove aftertaste
I've been making homebrew for 8 years now. Recently, (over the last 8 months or so) I've noticed that in almost all of my beers, there is a distinct clove-like aftertaste. I assume that there is an ...
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Taste diacetyl in my first Pilsner :(
I have brewed a number of ales which have all turned out delicious, and recently I attempted my first Pilsner (92% Pilsner malt, 8% flaked wheat) which did not turn out how I expected. There is a ...
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Possible chlorophenol issue?
I recently brewed a pale ale, 100% 2 row, ~13*P, hopped to about 40IBU with Azacca, and fermented with Voss Kveik at around 30*c. I ended up with an awful hose water flavour, which I can only assume ...
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Help me debug my Christmas Ale band-aid flavor
Recently I brewed two batches of a copycat Christmas Ale. You can ignore the recipe's water adjustments, since I didn't do them.
Before fermenting, the wort smelled and tasted perfect - just the ...
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Help identifying (and preventing) an off flavor
I have had a recurring off-flavor in my ales that I would like help identifying and preventing.
The flavor is a yeasty flavor with some savory components. I have tasted it a few times in commercial ...
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What is causing an off flavor associated with yeast or trub?
I brewed a New England IPA and kegged it. The first few pours after moving around the keg come out very cloudy, with a few small leftover hop bits and likely some yeast in suspension. These pours ...
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A "Dusty" aftertaste in my beer
I have recently made a batch of pale ale malt and willamette SmaSh,
I used a BIAB setup and "no chill"-ed it in a cube over night.
I'm overall pleased with the final prodect, however it has a distinct ...
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"Debugging" a bitter DDH NEIPA
I brewed a DDH NEIPA recently and it was a great learning experience.
I got the aromatics I was looking for but the flavor was bitter. The batch was bound to be wonky because of size limitations ...
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Beer has off flavor, sample taken while bottling tasted good
I brewed an IPA about 3 weeks ago. Everything went fine during fermentation and I've dropped a couple of hop pellets 4 days before bottling into the fermenter as I planned to do.
When bottling ...
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What to do with my (accidently) sour saison?
I have recently made a batch of Saison that turned sour. I'm having a hard time pouring it all down the drain, I thought about using it for cooking but I don't know what sort of recipes to look for.
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Any way to deal with bitter taste from turbo yeast?
I had some turbo yeast left over, and figured I'd try make a couple litres of ginger beer (sugar, grated ginger, a little lime juice) and elderflower wine (sugar, elderflowers, lemon juice and zest) ...
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Do darker ales suffer less with choloramines/chlorophenols?
I have done many many brews with untreated local tap water, and I have only 3 times had an issue with chlorophenols. I now treat the tap water with 1 campden tablet/100l/20gl. But, revieing my records ...
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I'm suspecting high Diacetyl in my beer, is it safe to drink?
Today I tasted a new batch that was done priming, the beer has a distinct but mild butter after taste, so I'm suspecting high Diacetyl levels, is it still safe to drink? Or should I throw it all?
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