JoshJoshua
Active Member
For anyone who is thinking about postponing your mash tun cleaning til a later day. DONT!!!
I got lazy after a late night of brewing and thought I'd leave the mash tun to clean another day. Well a couple days later I open to clean it and we have a quadruple imperial sour beer. Mold, decomposition, and alcohol are smells that are not meant to be mixed. Only left about a inch of grains in it and it turned into a mold party with about 3 cups of wort remaining.
So lesson learned always clean everything the day of brewing.
Now Im boiling multiple pots of water and scrubbing the smell away. After most of the smell is gone Ill be letting it set in starsans for a day and then boil some more water to finish cleaning and killing everything.
I got lazy after a late night of brewing and thought I'd leave the mash tun to clean another day. Well a couple days later I open to clean it and we have a quadruple imperial sour beer. Mold, decomposition, and alcohol are smells that are not meant to be mixed. Only left about a inch of grains in it and it turned into a mold party with about 3 cups of wort remaining.
So lesson learned always clean everything the day of brewing.
Now Im boiling multiple pots of water and scrubbing the smell away. After most of the smell is gone Ill be letting it set in starsans for a day and then boil some more water to finish cleaning and killing everything.