LovesIPA
Well-Known Member
Something is going on and it's EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. My batches taste great when I taste them after doing the FG sample. After sitting in the keg for a few days carbonating, the beer completely changes its flavor. This has happened to the last 3-4 batches.
My last batches have been:
- Stone 15th Anniversary Escondidian clone
- Lagunitas lil sumpin clone
- IPA recipe I cobbled together
All three of these beers tasted great right out of the fermentor. I couldn't WAIT until they were carb'd and ready to drink. After a week of sitting in the keg, the beers are totally different. No hop flavor. No bitterness at all, just a cloyingly sweet, overly malty beer. They are all gross now and I don't even want to drink them.
I cannot figure out what's going on. I've made almost 30 batches and this is something new.
My cleaning and sanitation is really good. I break down the keg completely, soak everything in oxiclean, re-assemble the keg, put some sanitizer in it (I use star-san), shake and dump it, purge the keg with CO2, and then fill it with beer. My racking cane is clean and sanitized.
Somewhere between racking it out of the fermentor and serving it out of the tap, something is completely changing the flavor of the beer. Could it be the beer lines? I cleaned them a month or two ago and I have a new set of lines on the way.
My last batches have been:
- Stone 15th Anniversary Escondidian clone
- Lagunitas lil sumpin clone
- IPA recipe I cobbled together
All three of these beers tasted great right out of the fermentor. I couldn't WAIT until they were carb'd and ready to drink. After a week of sitting in the keg, the beers are totally different. No hop flavor. No bitterness at all, just a cloyingly sweet, overly malty beer. They are all gross now and I don't even want to drink them.
I cannot figure out what's going on. I've made almost 30 batches and this is something new.
My cleaning and sanitation is really good. I break down the keg completely, soak everything in oxiclean, re-assemble the keg, put some sanitizer in it (I use star-san), shake and dump it, purge the keg with CO2, and then fill it with beer. My racking cane is clean and sanitized.
Somewhere between racking it out of the fermentor and serving it out of the tap, something is completely changing the flavor of the beer. Could it be the beer lines? I cleaned them a month or two ago and I have a new set of lines on the way.