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Shouldn't be too many boil hops cause I mostly do low bitterness pales and hazy pales, I've even had this problem with beers that had no hops till flameout. Good idea about the recipe. I'll post a recipe and process when I get home later. Thanks guys

Hi. I've been brewing now for a couple of years but am yet to make a good pale ale. I've made some great stouts and black ipas but all my pales, IPAs, neipas, are basically undrinkable. The all have a strange flavour and nothing I do seems to help. This is both bottled and kegged, dry hopped/not...

No never. I'm pretty careful to avoid splashing and I never shake the bottle afterwards. The only reason I doubt oxidation is cause the colour doesn't change.

I don't think I'm over hopping, apart from the first neipa I made which had about 30g a litre in but actually turned out amazing 😂. One of the beers which had this taste is the American IPA from the Greg Hughes book and I followed the recipe scaled down to 10 litres. I also try to add dry hops...

Yeah mostly pale ales. Tried a neipa a couple of times but they would only be good for a couple of weeks before oxidising so I decided to leave it till I can sort a kegging system out. My recipes usually involve pale malt and some light crystal. Sometimes flaked oats or wheat malt if I want more...

But surely oxidation doesn't happen that quickly and wouldn't happen with every single brew? I opened one yesterday after only 4 days in the bottle just cause I was curious. There wasnt much carbonation as you'd expect but it didn't taste anything like it did before bottling. I'm gonna open a...

Really hard to describe. I can't compare it to any other taste but really I'm not very good at that kind of thing. I wouldn't say there's lots of trub in the bottles. I rack to a bottling bucket first, leaving the trub behind

Starsan is like the industry standard in homebrewing and is a no rinse sanitizer. No one else has any issues with it so I can't imagine it would be that. I have tried bottled water once but it was for a neipa and it oxidised really quickly. Can't recall it having that taste though.

I have two extremely asthmatic children so we're not going anywhere till this thing is over so won't be able to get to a post office. Thanks though.

Okay so I do 10litre batches, mostly pale ales. I use tap water but I treat with campden. I haven't done any other water treatments yet but I've just ordered some stuff and got a water report. I ferment at around 18c and then bump the temp up slowly after a few days. For bottling I batch prime...

I don't think those ones are precise enough? They tend to go from 1 to 14 whereas the more expensive homebrew ones go from 4 to 7 with all the decimal places in-between. At least that's what I think.

I wish I could send off my beers to someone but with the current situation I don't think I'll be able to do that for a while. What I find so strange is that the sample always tastes great on bottling day so I can only assume it's something going on during priming that's causing this off flavour...

Wort p.H is the only thing I haven't really tackled yet. I'll have to get myself a meter and some lactic acid.

Got my order today, after waiting 10 days. Unfortunately the dumbass driver dropped it off 8 houses away.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section. Almost every single beer I've made has ended up with the same off flavour after bottling. They taste amazing out of the f.v but something happens to them during priming. It only happens with pale ales and they don't look oxidised. But they taste harsh and...