WIBeerGeek
Well-Known Member
So, I have been drinking my first two batches of homebrew for almost a month now. I went to open a bottle of bitter tonight and foam started to shoot out, was able to try a little bit and it tasted bland. I thought it might have just been the one bottle, so I got a second. The second didn't gush as fast but it too had very little flavor. So, I went and got a third bottle of bitter and one bottle of my German Wheat. The third bottle of bitter is a little bland, but not as much as the first two and the weizen has gotten spicier, but also tried to gush out of the bottle..
I always wash out my bottle with jet bottle washer, use a bottle brush, jet it again, and then sanitize with a vinator bottle rinser and then put it on a bottle tree to wait until I bottle it.
Am I missing a step? Could I be getting a gusher infection from my plastic bottling bucket, or plastic fermentation bucket? I have been very careful to not scratch the buckets when I clean the, and sanitize them thoroughly before use, but I now have two beers with what might be an infection, one in secondary, and one in primary... I hope the two that are still in fermentation aren't infected too..
I always wash out my bottle with jet bottle washer, use a bottle brush, jet it again, and then sanitize with a vinator bottle rinser and then put it on a bottle tree to wait until I bottle it.
Am I missing a step? Could I be getting a gusher infection from my plastic bottling bucket, or plastic fermentation bucket? I have been very careful to not scratch the buckets when I clean the, and sanitize them thoroughly before use, but I now have two beers with what might be an infection, one in secondary, and one in primary... I hope the two that are still in fermentation aren't infected too..