tackucack
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So I'm 2 years into brewing and I finally pulled the trigger on a keg setup. I bought all my fittings and lines from keg connection, and some corny's from a local brewer leaving the hobby. Built my keezer, attached the controller, and then I finally racked a porter into the first keg and plugged in the gas.
2 weeks later after a slow force carb, (too afraid to go too quick on my first batch in fear of overcarbing) I pull my first glass from my new system. PLASTIC!!! Argh it tasted terrible. I had no idea what was going wrong, and then I thought "wait, I haven't run anything through my lines yet." haha, I admit I had already been a couple beers deep at this point. So I unplugged (and continued my bottle night).
The next day I took a cleaned second keg, filled with Starsan and flushed it through the lines. After that I plugged the porter back in and took another sample. PLASTIC!!!
Now I'm getting worried, so I go to the boards and start searching. I found a ton of info and found one suggestion was to sample directly from the keg. I purged, opened it, sampled, PLASTIC!!!
So now I'm really puzzled. This beer tasted fine from primary to secondary, and secondary to keg. I'm all freaked out about chlorine now, but I used a campden(for the first time ever in this batch). My batches before and after this had no plastic flavor, so why just this batch?
Any thoughts? I'm really trying to think of anything I could have done wrong. Since kegging is new to me I'm a little in the dark, but all signs seem to point to something with this process. I changed the o-rings and used keg lube (purchased at a LHBS). I cleaned the keg with one-step since the guy I bought them from had old leftover beer sitting in it.
All these amazing stories about how awesome kegging is, and I get this on my first batch?!?
2 weeks later after a slow force carb, (too afraid to go too quick on my first batch in fear of overcarbing) I pull my first glass from my new system. PLASTIC!!! Argh it tasted terrible. I had no idea what was going wrong, and then I thought "wait, I haven't run anything through my lines yet." haha, I admit I had already been a couple beers deep at this point. So I unplugged (and continued my bottle night).
The next day I took a cleaned second keg, filled with Starsan and flushed it through the lines. After that I plugged the porter back in and took another sample. PLASTIC!!!
Now I'm getting worried, so I go to the boards and start searching. I found a ton of info and found one suggestion was to sample directly from the keg. I purged, opened it, sampled, PLASTIC!!!
So now I'm really puzzled. This beer tasted fine from primary to secondary, and secondary to keg. I'm all freaked out about chlorine now, but I used a campden(for the first time ever in this batch). My batches before and after this had no plastic flavor, so why just this batch?
Any thoughts? I'm really trying to think of anything I could have done wrong. Since kegging is new to me I'm a little in the dark, but all signs seem to point to something with this process. I changed the o-rings and used keg lube (purchased at a LHBS). I cleaned the keg with one-step since the guy I bought them from had old leftover beer sitting in it.
All these amazing stories about how awesome kegging is, and I get this on my first batch?!?