Recent content by bhdail

I've bled off the CO2 in my tank and set my PSI at 10 to see if that helps with my carbonation. My lines around around 3 ft long and they've worked fine up until this batch. My setup has worked in the past so my guess is that I'm doing something wrong. If I can get the carbonation issue...

We have good tap water, no chemical or off tastes to it. I've never used anything other then my tap water to brew and this is the first time I've had this kind of plastic taste in a beer. To clean my tap lines I'll run a solution of 1 step cleaner through the lines and let it sit in there...

Yes, everything is food grade plastic. Have brewed many batches using the same equipment and never had a problem.

Not sure what I did but I have a plastic taste in my Kolsch. I'm a rookie so want to learn what may have caused that so I don't repeat the mistake. I'm also having trouble getting carbonation in the beer. I keg the beer and force carbonated at 20psi. Brought the pressure down to 10psi to...

I went out on a limb and brewed my first extract batch of my own creation. I looked at various Belguim Ale recipes and bought ingredients that are variations of several of those recipes. I had 6lbs of Briess Gold LME and steeped 1 1/2 lbs of grains and then had my hops. Some of the recipes...