milesvdustin
Well-Known Member
So I know some of you have read and commented in a few of the threads I posted trying to pinpoint a metallic and bitter off taste in my beers. So I decided that it was time to try filtered water and temperature control for fermentation. Out of the fermenter, the newest batch was a bit better than in the past, tasted like flat beer. But where I finally found my issue was in my kegs, and my cleaning process. I was taking pbw or oxyclean free and soaking for a few days, sometimes longer. Then I would dump them out and spray with a hose until I needed, then just hit it with some starsan and fill em up. Well, I actually smelled the keg last night before I filled it, to see if they might have been the issue. They STUNK like metal and acrid smell, it was very bad. So I scrubbed the insides with some BKF, then a scrub with pbw, then a coulple of hot water rinses. Now they don't even begin to have a smell of anything at all, completely different. And that smell they used to have reminds me of the crappy taste in some of my beer. So hopefully some of you trying to pinpoint the same issue can try this and see if it helps.