Ah - maybe that’s it. I did not degrease and didn’t even realize that was an issue. I didn’t even use PBW - I figured they were clean enough so I just sanitized.
Also the timelines for these two:
- for the first batch, the beer sat in my fermenter for 28 days cause I was waiting for the kegs...
Maybe I’m not describing it correctly. It’s definitely more a smell than a taste. Maybe it’s more like astringency? But again I didn’t taste or smell it before kegging. There shouldn’t have been any star San left over as I made sure to push it all out - would’ve just been bubbles left over.
Yeah I’m thinking that it may be something else, because yea I tried it right after kegging. Again it was subtle but i could smell it a little bit. And I tried the beer before racking to the keg and it was fine.
Hopefully after a week of conditioning it will be better.
I have now kegged two batches, and I am having issues with oxidation (which I thought kegging would REDUCE risk of oxidation not increase it). Overall I’m a new brewer but I did 6 batches in bottles and never once had an oxygen issue.
So the first batch that oxidized I know what happened -...