starrfish

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lead tastes sweet... that's why kids will keep sucking on an old painted window sill.

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Gremlyn

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Did the stainless steel scrubby have any signs of corrosion? If not, it's highly unlikely that was the source of your off flavour. The entire corny keg, afterall, is made of stainless steel too.

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Chenslee

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I just found out that FFL swivel nuts are plated brass, as are the MFL threads on ball locks. Long term exposure to StarSan eats the plating off, which subsequently stays in my StarSan vat. I draw from this vat for all my sanitizing. Most of my siphon tubes and canes are in this vat.

OOPS.

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micahhowe

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I came across this post a few weeks ago after having a metallic taste in an IPA that I had dry hopped in a corny keg. I had hung two stainless steel tea balls off of a hose clamp fixed to the pressure relief valve on the keg. The hose clamp broke and fell into the keg during the dry hop. I thought the clamp was SS, but when I carbed up the beer, there was a strong metallic aftertaste. I opened the keg and fished out the clamp and the screw was corroded (apparently only the band was SS).

I assumed I was going to have to dump it until I came across this thread. Ordered EDTA supplements online and dumped the contents of 1 pill (625 mg) into the keg last night, pressurized it and shook it gently to mix the powder in, and tapped it. Just like gasman09 said, the metallic taste was instantly gone.

Thanks for the post, you saved 5 gallons of beer from the drain. I owe you a few.