FlyGuy
Well-Known Member
A guy that my brother-in-law works with is a very experienced, and very accomplished homebrewer (wins more competitions than anyone I know, BJCP judge, one of very few BJCP instructors in Canada, etc., etc.). Anyways, after ALWAYS rinsing star-san out of his bottles, he now decided to not bother. It is supposed to be a 'no-rinse' sanitizer, after all. But now he claims all the beer in the bottles he didn't rinse (across various batches) have a 'steely' taste, not unlike the smell of star-san.
So, does anyone bother rinsing star-san? Has anyone had problems NOT rinsing star-san? I never rinse it off anything, but then again, there are always enough flaws in my beers that I wouldn't notice this 'steely' taste.
Of course, now me, my brother-in-law, and his co-worker are all going to brew up a batch, bottle part of it, and rinse only half of the bottles sanitized with star-san to see what's up.
So, does anyone bother rinsing star-san? Has anyone had problems NOT rinsing star-san? I never rinse it off anything, but then again, there are always enough flaws in my beers that I wouldn't notice this 'steely' taste.
Of course, now me, my brother-in-law, and his co-worker are all going to brew up a batch, bottle part of it, and rinse only half of the bottles sanitized with star-san to see what's up.