ben229

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My oldish bottling bucket and my most recent length of transfer tubing both have a kind of vomity smell that seems to linger in them. This is after long soaks in oxyclean and a bleach vinegar solution. Have had some plasticy batches recently too. Think that is some sort of infection or something...I mean...no biggie to replace them...just wondering if anyone has ever had a vomity smell in plastic that they cant get rid of. I promise that I did not vomit in the bucket or siphon vomit with my hose. Promise.

TimpanogosSlim

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Lacto will do that, I think.

wSelwyn

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I am very thourough when it comes to cleaning & sanitizing my equipment before and after brewing, racking, bottling, etc. Even with these precautions, every time I have grown weary of my racking equipment, I've replaced it. Over time, I notice a discoloration in the vinyl tubing that could be sraped off (thus scrating the plastic & potentially harboring nasties). So, every time I get worried, I just replace. At the rate & brew, I end up replacing tubing roughly every 6 months, and I just replaced my siphon/cane.

The only downside of replacing too often is incurring a small cost for these cheap supplies. I'd rather pay for dirt cheap tubing than losing an entire batch to infection.

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bottlebomber

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Lacto smells like vomit for sure. I've never smelled it from tubing and stuff though, just old spent grains.

ben229

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Yeah....and my issues are chlorophenols....just a thought that the two might be related. Probably time to replace regardless.

duckmanco

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I thought a bottle of Hansens Experimental Rasberry, which is a sour beer, smelled like vomit and rasberries... That beer had to have lacto in it, but the smell alone was off putting.

AmandaK

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Bad sanitation can cause unwanted phenolics, so the two might be related after all. Let us know what happens when you replace your vomit lines.

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