Now, I'm trying to figure out the saccharine after-taste I get from the beer. I get that my ingedient selection sucked and will fix that, but I don't want a glaring oversight of process to give me the same result.
Beer was brewed with 2.5 gallons of distilled water, added half-extract, and did a half-extract boil with proper hops additions. Last 5, added remaining extracts, whirlfloc. Cooled, moved to fermenter and topped with distilled. Pitched vendor's yeast (a screw-up, but hey was my second 5 gallon batch).
Is this just old LME/DME; stale hops; crappy yeast? Is my brew kettle leaching lead into the beer? Help?





I looked around and can't find a source of a "saccharine" aftertaste, but seriously this is like drinking tab in the 70's (except this does the drunk job admirably, so I guess more like drinking Tab+Vodka).
Thanks in advance for any help or insight!
