I used 180F water to pre-heat my mash tun (a square plastic cooler with CPVC manifold), and apparently that was hot enough to let tons of plastic flavor into my mash. Now I have a couple kegs of plastic-tasting beer.
I had always read that plastic coolers add no off-flavors, but I suppose that's contingent on not going above mashout temperatures. In hindsight, I should have used baking soda to leech the plastic flavor out of the mash tun (like the way people get the plastic flavor out of a plastic coffee cup).
Does anyone have experience with this? Can anything get rid of the plastic flavor in my beers? I've already tried a month+ of cold conditioning, which made only a very small improvement. Might a fining agent like polyclar grab those plastic molecules (or whatever they are), and drop them out of my beers? Thank you for your suggestions!
I had always read that plastic coolers add no off-flavors, but I suppose that's contingent on not going above mashout temperatures. In hindsight, I should have used baking soda to leech the plastic flavor out of the mash tun (like the way people get the plastic flavor out of a plastic coffee cup).
Does anyone have experience with this? Can anything get rid of the plastic flavor in my beers? I've already tried a month+ of cold conditioning, which made only a very small improvement. Might a fining agent like polyclar grab those plastic molecules (or whatever they are), and drop them out of my beers? Thank you for your suggestions!