maclaren said:I just cracked open a bottle of a beer I recently brewed and is has a very sour, almost vinegar like taste to it. Any ideas?
So should I look into buying a glass carboy rather than using a plastic fermenting bucket?
Instead of glass, look into better bottles. And don't bleach your stuff it doesn't work as well as people think. Go to the brewing network and look up Brewstrong's episodes on sanitation and cleaning. You'll get a good idea of how to clean you stuff.
maclaren said:I just re-used bottles from microbreweries, but I made sure to clean them in Iodophor solution before bottling. Looking back I noticed a few other mistakes that I will be sure to avoid on my next batch.
The key is are all the bottles infected or just some?
Did you do a secondary? Acetobacter requires alcohol. Is there any vinegar mother in the bottles? (a hair-like mass).
Did you do a secondary? Acetobacter requires alcohol. Is there any vinegar mother in the bottles? (a hair-like mass).
oakbarn said:Idorphor is not a cleaner. PBW or Oxiclean is a cleaner. If the bottles were dirty, Idophor will not get rid of any organic debris.
Bobby_M said:I'm taking a guess that acetobacter was picked up in the bottling bucket. Do you use that bucket for anything other than bottling operations?
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