So after a week or two in the keg my beer develops an almost unnaturally strong flavor. It is a estor or phenolic flavor I would expect from yeast, but it is so strong all other flavors disappear. I can hardly recognize my beers once this happens.
I need help troubleshooting here..
-some variables to this flavor developing:
-I may have correlated this to happening when I warm up my Keezer. I also use this to ferment lagers so I will regularly warm from 35 up to mid 50's during the primary. I am going to stop brewing lagers to see if this is the culprit. I do attemp to compensate with increaseing the regulator pressure to maintain constant carb levels. I shoot for 1.9
- I sanitize with bleach. I'm not sure this could be it due to delay in flavor development. Also I use bleach to sanitize car boys and other equipment so why would it not be present right away? I always rinse a minimum of 3 times and make sure the bleach smell is no longer present. I suppose I could start using one step.
-line contaminate. Well it seems present even past first poor. But perhaps it back contaminates all the way to the keg?
What else could I try to eliminate the flavor culprit?
I need help troubleshooting here..
-some variables to this flavor developing:
-I may have correlated this to happening when I warm up my Keezer. I also use this to ferment lagers so I will regularly warm from 35 up to mid 50's during the primary. I am going to stop brewing lagers to see if this is the culprit. I do attemp to compensate with increaseing the regulator pressure to maintain constant carb levels. I shoot for 1.9
- I sanitize with bleach. I'm not sure this could be it due to delay in flavor development. Also I use bleach to sanitize car boys and other equipment so why would it not be present right away? I always rinse a minimum of 3 times and make sure the bleach smell is no longer present. I suppose I could start using one step.
-line contaminate. Well it seems present even past first poor. But perhaps it back contaminates all the way to the keg?
What else could I try to eliminate the flavor culprit?