odd taste on lighter brews

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Tried a couple lower srm brews and seem to always get a protieny/trubey taste in their somewhere. Any ideas why?

Brews were batch sparged, mashout at 170F tops.

Same fermention procedures as my pale ales, ipa's etc.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I haven't a clue...what are you doing up so late? It's 3 AM in IL.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Well it was only 1am here in BC but basically I contracted a virus that has been keeping me up! Nothing like getting sick in the summer during a heat wave.

 

[ahoym8e]

pah! heat wave in Canada. whatever...

it's 110+ in cali right now.

mid 90's in Texas, with 190% humidity

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

104 here in Kelowna

 

[david_42]

Hard to say, but most of the ales I've had to filter were at the low end. Maybe they just lack enough other flavor notes to mask the off-flavors. I chill them well first & the filter seem to trap most of it.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Did you cold condition them? I'm in the habit of doing that now in the secondary whenever I have space in the fridge...definitely seems to result in a cleaner taste even for ales.

 

[Matt]

I've had a similar experience with my last two beers. I used yeast from a former beer (primary) for both of them. I was going to dump one out in fact, but I thought I'd try it again and it seems to be mellowing. Did you use fresh yeast, or cultivated yeast from another fermentation?

The only thing I can think is that for mine at least, the reused yeast gave it a stronger yeasty flavor somehow, and it took much more time to fully ferment.