I had infections on 2 beers recently. The first one, it didn't surprise me, since it was our first beer, and everything was poorly done, the cooling took hours, etc... Anyway, we learned and step forward. But then the 3rd beer, showed signs of infections avec the bottling. Big leather taste and acidic smell.
We looked for the problem everywhere. I bought a new transfert tube, with a auto-siphon to clean it well... I bought StarSan, wich seems way better than what I used before. Then on the last bottling, our beer number 7, we doubled our sanitizing mania, everything was clean, star san'ed... We where 4, so we worked in chain... Cleaning, double rinse, star san, filling, capping... everything was done in less than a minute!
Before bottling, the beer was great. Coffe milk stout.. it was roasty, great coffee flavor... great body after we had lactose... but now, 1 week after bottling.. this little leather flavor again, it's ''carbonated'', but the foam goes completly in 5 seconds... no body, no sweetness...
What is the ******* problem!? I begin to really loose hope.
Ok, our brewing setup is not so good, the cooling can take too long... but if the contamination comes from there, why it doesnt show up before it's in bottles, after 4-5 weeks after brew day? Fermentation goes well, like normal.
Or maybe it ain't contamination, but another problem?
We looked for the problem everywhere. I bought a new transfert tube, with a auto-siphon to clean it well... I bought StarSan, wich seems way better than what I used before. Then on the last bottling, our beer number 7, we doubled our sanitizing mania, everything was clean, star san'ed... We where 4, so we worked in chain... Cleaning, double rinse, star san, filling, capping... everything was done in less than a minute!
Before bottling, the beer was great. Coffe milk stout.. it was roasty, great coffee flavor... great body after we had lactose... but now, 1 week after bottling.. this little leather flavor again, it's ''carbonated'', but the foam goes completly in 5 seconds... no body, no sweetness...
What is the ******* problem!? I begin to really loose hope.
Ok, our brewing setup is not so good, the cooling can take too long... but if the contamination comes from there, why it doesnt show up before it's in bottles, after 4-5 weeks after brew day? Fermentation goes well, like normal.
Or maybe it ain't contamination, but another problem?