first ag batch funny after taste

gatorbeer69 · Apr 5, 2013

I just opened a bottle of my first ag batch. (Blonde Ale) It has kind of a plastic after taste. Not sure if its because of my equipment which is all new. Cooler mash tun, 10gal. aluminum kettle, or if its the hops,yeast,irish moss. which is hallertauer,saaz, and wlp california ale yeast. any suggestions thanks

kapbrew13 · Apr 5, 2013

Chlorine or chloramine problem possibility. Using city water?

gatorbeer69 · Apr 5, 2013

yeah i did use city water

kapbrew13 · Apr 5, 2013

I prep my water the.night before. Fill 10+ gallons and treat it with campden tablets.
Match want to brew same blonde with the treatment next time. Lighter ales will show off flavors more. I thinks. In hot tub drunk, maybe

meltroha · Apr 7, 2013

The effect I got from chlorine was metallic, a plastic taste is usually oxidation.

Yooper · Apr 7, 2013

meltroha said:
The effect I got from chlorine was metallic, a plastic taste is usually oxidation.

In my experience, a "plastic" taste is almost always chlorophenols- a phenolic flavor created from chlorine in the brewing water.

Oxidation is a "sherry" flavor that gets closer to a "wet cardboard" flavor as the beer ages and the oxidation gets worse.

strangegreenman · Apr 8, 2013

Perhaps the brand-new picnic-cooler mash tun gave a plasticky flavor to the beer? I can only imagine the plasticizers in the resin ("new car smell") would get into the hot wort fairly easily, but I have too little experience to say for sure. Thoughts?

Some wild yeasts give plastic tastes too, I hear.

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