5 More Beer Off-Flavors and How to Fix Them

Finding out your beer has off-flavors is a part of learning how to homebrew quality beer. We covered 5 common homebrew off-flavors and how to fix them and received interest in covering a few more flaws. Before reading through the following off-flavors, check out part 1 for an overview of off-flavors and general tips when diagnosing issues. It's up to you to determine what the issue is and make intelligent changes to your process to try and prevent off-flavors in the future. Making changes for no rhyme or reason and hoping for the best could possibly introduce even more flaws, so use your brew day note sheets to deduce what caused the issue and work backwards from there. 1. Buttered Popcorn Movie popcorn, butter and butterscotch are all tell-tale signs of diacetyl. Diacetyl…

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