Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:11 pm
If your water is full of chloromine, your neighbor's water is too. If you're brewing extract, with or without steeping grains, go splurge the few bucks & buy a couple cases of distilled from Wally World. There's a number of things that could be affecting it, but the first step is to get controlled water so you can take it out of the equation. Then start at the end & work backwards. You're fermenting in a fridge - double check your temp is accurate. Double check your cleaning/sani processes. Make sure you're pitching clean yeast of an appropriate cell count, etc. It may take a few batches but you'll figure it out. Especially since you'll have some club meetings to go to & get some other opinions on what it might be. Just be sure to bring in plenty of great homebrew for them when you dial it back in. Stick to the same recipe throughout the process. You only want to change 1 variable at a time, or else you might have fixed the problem but screwed something else up by changing too many things at once.
Lee
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