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Dms can combine with chlorine to form Dimethyl sulfide-chlorine (DMS-Cl2) and methyl chloride which has a sweet ether-like odor. Maybe this is the smell that is overwhelming and lingering? It could be any number of other compounds too. An easy solution may be to run the tap water through a...

Do you treat the tap water going into the mister? The high temps combined with the large amount of surface area of the atomized water would quickly create reactions with the volatile chemicals from the boil

Could the strength of the smell be related to the tap water? Some kind of reaction with chlorine or something other in the water.

Thank you for the link! There was a lot of useful information in that podcast! I will have to look into csst as an option!

Good point, I can't really think of any other situations where the pH will go out of that range. I'm not going to use star san on it and my mash shouldn't be going below 5

So I won't be able to cip with an alkaline cleaner like PBW?

I'm am working on designing my electric brewing rig and was wondering if there would be any problem with using 50' 1/2 aluminum seamless tube instead of SS?