Ester Report 1

What I want in life is to make a beer like Widmer's Citra Blonde. A clean blonde beer. Unfortunately, I suck. All I have been making is ester beer. They really come through when you have a light beer. To re-cap I've tried different air locks, different temperatures, more yeast, and now clean gear. In all cases one was more/less estery than another but still they were all estery. I made furlough beer and used two packs of dry english yeast. At first I thought it was a bust after I sampled it 4 days in. But now after 10 days I would say it is drinkable. Maybe my least estery blonde yet. Could it simply be the english yeast? All the others were the Chico strain. Three days into the fermentation of clean gear beer I can say they both taste the same. I'll try again next weekend. But something tells me that they will continue to taste the same. So where do this leave us? Temperature! I really need to get going on my sexy temp controller.