BoSoxFan02
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So, a few months ago, one of my beers tasted sour. Then the next one did too. The one after that was worse. Now I detect this sourness in every beer, of every style. I never see any visible signs of infection, but infection was what I thought of first.
I've simplified my process as much as possible to address the possibility of infection - I stopped using the aerator I got from morebeer.com (the kind that uses air, not pure oxygen). I threw out all my tubing and started pouring the beer straight from the kettle into the better bottle using only a sanitized funnel. I used PBW and Starsan on everything religiously. The sourness hasn't gone away even in my wheat beer, which is many months old by now - it tastes like a nice, tart apple cider basically.
It's especially frustrating because I finally cured my other problem, a chemical taste (I switched to spring water), and up comes this new problem.
Could it be something other than infection?
Thanks for your help!
Jonathan
I've simplified my process as much as possible to address the possibility of infection - I stopped using the aerator I got from morebeer.com (the kind that uses air, not pure oxygen). I threw out all my tubing and started pouring the beer straight from the kettle into the better bottle using only a sanitized funnel. I used PBW and Starsan on everything religiously. The sourness hasn't gone away even in my wheat beer, which is many months old by now - it tastes like a nice, tart apple cider basically.
It's especially frustrating because I finally cured my other problem, a chemical taste (I switched to spring water), and up comes this new problem.
Could it be something other than infection?
Thanks for your help!
Jonathan