Joeywhat
Well-Known Member
Got a bit of a problem here...made my first beer in almost 6 months a bit ago, and everything was right on track until I kegged it...the story:
Made a simple ale with 6lb pale liquid, 2oz Sorachi (leaf), 1oz bitter orange. First time doing a full boil, it went pretty well despite ending up with a bit less then 5 gallons (no big deal). As always I sanitize everything real well (starsan), and use dawn liquid dish detergent to clean everything before hand.
Anyways, before kegging I had a taste...was pretty good. Obviously needed to be carbed and cold before it was great, but it was on track. I've made this beer before, I know what it tastes like still in the primary. So I put the primary in the cooler for a day before racking to keg. Had it in primary for about 10 days, it's usually done quicker but it went an extra day or two. FG was 1014.
After chilling fermenter, racked into keg and pressurized, and had a taste....and it was literally like drinking a mild solution of dish soap and water. NO beer flavor at all. Smell was the same. I'm fairly convinced that if you put a dish soap solution and my beer in a blind taste test, nobody would tell the difference.
So what's going on here? How did it go from great one day to downright awful the next? I mean, it can't be an infection given it happened over a day, and while the beer was getting cool...the only thing I can think of is that I forgot to purge my beer line nozzle of starsan before giving it a taste, but I'd like to believe after going through nearly a gallon in the keg that it's long gone and not really effecting anything.
Any thoughts here? What the hell happened to my beer?
Made a simple ale with 6lb pale liquid, 2oz Sorachi (leaf), 1oz bitter orange. First time doing a full boil, it went pretty well despite ending up with a bit less then 5 gallons (no big deal). As always I sanitize everything real well (starsan), and use dawn liquid dish detergent to clean everything before hand.
Anyways, before kegging I had a taste...was pretty good. Obviously needed to be carbed and cold before it was great, but it was on track. I've made this beer before, I know what it tastes like still in the primary. So I put the primary in the cooler for a day before racking to keg. Had it in primary for about 10 days, it's usually done quicker but it went an extra day or two. FG was 1014.
After chilling fermenter, racked into keg and pressurized, and had a taste....and it was literally like drinking a mild solution of dish soap and water. NO beer flavor at all. Smell was the same. I'm fairly convinced that if you put a dish soap solution and my beer in a blind taste test, nobody would tell the difference.
So what's going on here? How did it go from great one day to downright awful the next? I mean, it can't be an infection given it happened over a day, and while the beer was getting cool...the only thing I can think of is that I forgot to purge my beer line nozzle of starsan before giving it a taste, but I'd like to believe after going through nearly a gallon in the keg that it's long gone and not really effecting anything.
Any thoughts here? What the hell happened to my beer?