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I top up most of my Apple Cyser with bourbon after racking to secondary. Works great.

Yes, the purchasing source for the first set was AIH, they came as part of a shank assembly. The current set from my LHBS. I'm putting the distilled water in today per your suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion. I read up on those, alongside the Guest fittings for QDs. I may go that route. I already have some vinyl line so I'll finish out this experiment with distilled water, and probably finish out the keg prior to determining a switch.

Haven't abandoned this, had a busy week and was waiting on a few beer washers in the mail. I'll hook it up tomorrow with a keg filled with a gallon of distilled water. Ive kept a picnic tap on the beer all week and have been drinking from it. Same thing is happening. I poured out the first ~6oz...

Yes, I am going to do this.

Thanks for providing feedback. I'm not intending to be wasteful, just reacting to what I perceived to be a potential infection risk. I'm getting a lot of great feedback in this thread so I'm hopefull I can hang on to the rest! There for a minute I was just going to burn the whole house down...

It is definitely being new, I just think I am doing something incorrectly to cause it due to that inexperience. It's definitely not your standard beer off flavor, and changing the line the first time immediately kicked it only for it to do the same exact thing overnight again. Bizarre stuff...

Ordered a cheap picnic tap/line/QD assembled via same day Amazon (threw the first out after fear of contamination). I will test the theory again tonight by pulling a pint or 2 off and noting whether it as the first time tastes fine and then leave this one on overnight rather than reconnect to...

Several of you mentioning flushing new lines with distilled water. I'll attempt this and see what the results look like. Boy is this an aggressive taste though, not subtle or drinkable. I can't believe something like this could be a product of food grade stuff but I've also never paid that any...

Disassembled and soaked. I will put some elbow grease in before reassembling. The faucets were brand new though, everything was as I was setting up my keezer for the first time.

I replaced all tubing, did not boil prior to installation. Just flushed with Starsan.

Disassembled the lines again, scrapped lines, clamps, disconnects, and all fittings for the disconnect. Soaked faucets, shank, tail piece, and nut in Potassium Metabisulfite water. One thing I didn't scrap or notice is the O-ring in the faucet. This is still there for now as I couldn't easily...

Re-did my lines yesterday. New vinyl tubing, boil sanitized and starsan on the metals, star san everything else including running through the tubing. Beer tasted great. Today, same issue as the original post. First thing I noticed is it poured with no head which seemed strange. Same awful...

For follow up, appreciate the help. I pulled a few pints off with a separate picnic tap yesterday and they tasted fine, so those of you suggesting it wouldn't go back into the keg were correct. I must not have cleared the lines when pulling the infected bit out.

Also re: sanitizing lines, shank, faucet ect. I thought so, but pretty certain this is where it came from given the lack of anything else new that touched the beer in that time. That's why I was confused about the rest of the batch being tainted.

Picture of the finished set-up, at least she's pretty.

Definitely seems to be an plurality of folks saying that the lines wouldn't hit the whole keg, that's part of the reason I made the post as I couldn't find anyone saying it had happened to them. I'll hook it up to a separate picnic tap to verify, but I pulled 2 pints off and tasted both yesterday.

Thanks for the feedback. I poured off about 2 pints total after the first draught yesterday tasted infected. I'll hook a separate picnic tap up today to make sure my statement is correct, but I feel like 2 pints should be pulling from the keg (5ft line). Actually, the beer has been kegged for...

I feel like this is a pessimistic/needy first post so accept my apologies. I want to begin by stating that I’ve spent several months lurking, learning, and absorbing information from the very helpful posts in this community. It is my intention to not ask questions that have already been...