Joe Camel
Well-Known Member
Hey all,
Last weekend I bottled a brew into .5L Grolsch swingtops that had been cleaned out in a bleach solution, rinsed with a jet washer and then sanitized with Iodophor. The recipe made a basic red ale (65% 2-row, 30% Munich, 5% Carared) and it bottled up fine.
In some of the bottles, even after a week, we've noticed that the beer is a lighter shade if held to the light. There is active yeast and the beer is nicely carbonated, just the colour is different from the other bottles of the same brew. My uneducated tongue can't really taste anything "off" with the beer either but haven't tried them side by side with what I'd consider the normal beer from the batch.
Can residual bleach be the culprit? Can the colour of the beer be affected by less bleach than would hurt the yeast or affect the flavour?
Joe
Last weekend I bottled a brew into .5L Grolsch swingtops that had been cleaned out in a bleach solution, rinsed with a jet washer and then sanitized with Iodophor. The recipe made a basic red ale (65% 2-row, 30% Munich, 5% Carared) and it bottled up fine.
In some of the bottles, even after a week, we've noticed that the beer is a lighter shade if held to the light. There is active yeast and the beer is nicely carbonated, just the colour is different from the other bottles of the same brew. My uneducated tongue can't really taste anything "off" with the beer either but haven't tried them side by side with what I'd consider the normal beer from the batch.
Can residual bleach be the culprit? Can the colour of the beer be affected by less bleach than would hurt the yeast or affect the flavour?
Joe