Homebrew Batch 002

I have been slacking on my posts lately, but about a month ago I ventured into doing my 2nd homebrew considering the disappointment I had with Homebrew Batch 001. This time around I got a lot of positive feedback from the forums on RateBeer with where my errors most likely occurred causing the batch to be contaminated.
This 2nd batch I decided to try a Red Ale extract but wanted it make it slightly different so I added some Cascade Hops (pellets) to the the fermenter.

Ingredients

• 1 Can Edme Red Ale Extract
• 3 Cups Muntons Plain Light Malt Extract
• 1oz. Cascade Hops (pellets)
• Yeast supplied with Edme Extract

This time I am not going to list the entire procedures used here accept the things I did differently from the 1st batch.

1. Washed all bottles in High Temp dishwasher
2. Sanitized bottles 30 minutes before bottling, hung them on bottle tree
3. Used Iodophor for all sanitizing of equipment
4. Used a bottle rinser that allows the one step to spray into inverted bottle
5. Used Light Malt extract for priming bottles
6. Batch primed by boiling water and ad Malt extract to boil to kill off any contaminants in the Malt, then reduced heat and mixed into fermenter then transfered to bottling bucket

This batch seems to have turned out a lot better than my 1st, but I am still not 100% satisfied with the overall taste of this Red Ale. The cascade hops maybe a little much for this extract but I went off one recommendation from my local homebrew store.

Cheers!