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How can it be cold break if the grey green metallic smelling lumps in the foam formed during the boil? After reading about the chillers in "how to brew" I decide to give the copper a soaked in starsan to clean it up, and I was getting a lot of greasy film coming off it, I'm pretty sure this...

...facepalm. I have this guys book, I should have read it before hand, feeling dumb. So I guess I'm just gonna have to see what happens, it's already bubbling in the fermenter after a few hours, so hopefully it will ferment okay. But if it's full of oxides, it's probably gonna taste a little...

I wasn't to worried, but when I took my chiller out of the wort after it had cooled and saw how shiny the copper was now, I started to get pretty paranoid.

So I'm still pretty new to this, this was my 4th batch, and I had bought myself a brand new wort chiller since I have found the ice bath method really annoying. We had read the instructions and it said to clean it thoroughly with a mild detergent. We did this, twice in fact, but after adding the...

Dang! Wish I had read the part about "Oxi-Clean Free" before I soaked the fermeter over night in traditional freshly scented Oxi, now it smells like hops and a chemical spring breeze. Though the staining is a lot lighter now, I'm trying a few plain water soaks to see if it lightens up the Oxi...

Thanks for the advice guys, I have it soaking in oxyclean right now. Is this sort of staining avoidable by filtering/straining the wort as it is poured into the fermentor? I just bought a nice funnel with a built in strainer for my next batch.

Awesome, thanks!

Hey everybody, excuse my ignorance, but my "ale pale" is fairly stained and smells of hops after my first batch and i am not sure about the best way of cleaning it. I wiped it down with some mild dish soap, that removed the crusty ring, but the yellow/greenish stain from the brew isn't going...