Question about band-aid/plastic taste

So I recently brewed a partigyle in which the strong was like an American Strong Ale and the weak one I turned into sort of a steam beer. Only in the steam beer there is a highly detectable and pretty nasty band-aid/plastic taste. I know that this is said to be from chlorophenol production caused by poorly rinsing bleach off equipment. As someone who does use bleach to sanitize, I'm guessing I didn't rinse that carboy well enough. Now what I'm wondering is, does this taste go away with age? Is it going to be drinkable eventually? I really hope so because I hate wasting beer.

It might fade a bit with age but the only way to know for sure is to let it ride.

There are also many other ways to get phenols in your beer, give this a read.

http://www.winning-homebrew.com/phenolic-flavors.html

Yes, those are the tasty phenols, not that gross ones that I ended up with.

bump. Any other thoughts?

While beer is still fermenting, it tends to have a really strong band-aid flavor/aroma. Thought I had a ruined beer when I tasted a hydometer sample, but it went away in about a week or so.

It's been in the bottle for about a month and a half, forgot to mention that.

My thought is to stop using bleach. Nothing good can come of it.

bwomp313 said:

It's been in the bottle for about a month and a half

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Yeah, you're stuck with that flavor. It might go away a little, but that is a nasty one, and it doesn't just disappear.

carnevoodoo said:

Yeah, you're stuck with that flavor. It might go away a little, but that is a nasty one, and it doesn't just disappear.

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You just crushed my dreams. Guess it's a dumper.

Sorry. If it were a big imperial stout or something, I'd suggest aging it for years with the potential of getting lucky, but if is that prominent in a beer that light, it isn't really going anywhere before the beer is just an oxidized mess anyhow.

That is extremely disappointing.