Sterile tasting beers

[Geistbier]

Darth I work at the Raleigh homebrew shop so if you in the area sometime bring it by I can taste and see what I get from it. Are you adding all your extract at the beginning of the boil? That extract character might be what you are getting if you have tried brewing with a variety of waters and the beer hasn't changed.

Just wondering, diagnosing remotely is difficult at best.

Cheers!

[Old_Skool]

Two more pieces of info would be:

- How are you steeping your grains ?
- First off are the grains crushed / crushed enough ?
- What temperature and you steeping and for how long ?
- How much water are you steeping in ?

- Or are you mini-mashing ?
- Again describe that process

I assume you are doing a partial boil and then adding water. How are you calculating your grain / LME / Hops amounts ?

Are you using a tried and true recipe(s) or are you making up you own ?

My advice to new brewers is to always start out slow -- brew 2 - 3 - even 4 basic tried and true Ale recipes until you are consistently getting decent beer at the end of the process. Then you can start to change up some stuff.