Recent content by joshred4

Is a little bit of star San really going to affect a 5 gallon batch? If so, how do you handle it if you are purging the keg in this way?

Ah - maybe that’s it. I did not degrease and didn’t even realize that was an issue. I didn’t even use PBW - I figured they were clean enough so I just sanitized. Also the timelines for these two: - for the first batch, the beer sat in my fermenter for 28 days cause I was waiting for the kegs...

Maybe I’m not describing it correctly. It’s definitely more a smell than a taste. Maybe it’s more like astringency? But again I didn’t taste or smell it before kegging. There shouldn’t have been any star San left over as I made sure to push it all out - would’ve just been bubbles left over.

Yeah I’m thinking that it may be something else, because yea I tried it right after kegging. Again it was subtle but i could smell it a little bit. And I tried the beer before racking to the keg and it was fine. Hopefully after a week of conditioning it will be better.

I have now kegged two batches, and I am having issues with oxidation (which I thought kegging would REDUCE risk of oxidation not increase it). Overall I’m a new brewer but I did 6 batches in bottles and never once had an oxygen issue. So the first batch that oxidized I know what happened -...