noremorse1
Well-Known Member
Some of you may or may not have read my keg funk thread. Anyways, I have been having some issues with my beer since I started kegging. It has this funkiness to it and, while they all kinda start tasting unique, they gradually mature toward a similar flavor.
After a botched porter and scottish 80 I went all Nazi on my kegging setup, replaced the tubes, soaked the **** out of it in PBW for 24 hours, then sanitized with Star San. I kegged up a 7.5% all centennial IPA about 4 days ago. It sat in the primary for a week, secondary for 2 weeks, and has been in the keg on 12 psi for 4 days.
I know it is early... but it doesn't taste like I would expect. I cannot smell any hop aroma and it had 5 ounces of centennial in the boil and 1 ounce dry hop. It is green yes... but I am thinking its got a funk to it too.
The one mistake I may have made is my choice of fermenting vessels. I got rid of my glass carboys to move to Better Bottles. Well, I took my time ordering the better bottles and decided to ferment a few batches in these old 7 gallon buckets with spigots I had sitting in my storage shed. I cleaned them with a 30 minute PBW soak and a 30 minute star san soak. I am concerned they may be the problem.
Anyone? I am going to re-order some glass carboys after I have now lost faith in plastic all-together... I have a 6 gallon Better Bottle but, I used it as the secondary on this last batch and am concerned any infection may have leached over.
Anyone have any suggestions. Outside of the **** plastic fermenters, I took every precaution you can imagine. A few months ago I was making really, really good beers too.
After a botched porter and scottish 80 I went all Nazi on my kegging setup, replaced the tubes, soaked the **** out of it in PBW for 24 hours, then sanitized with Star San. I kegged up a 7.5% all centennial IPA about 4 days ago. It sat in the primary for a week, secondary for 2 weeks, and has been in the keg on 12 psi for 4 days.
I know it is early... but it doesn't taste like I would expect. I cannot smell any hop aroma and it had 5 ounces of centennial in the boil and 1 ounce dry hop. It is green yes... but I am thinking its got a funk to it too.
The one mistake I may have made is my choice of fermenting vessels. I got rid of my glass carboys to move to Better Bottles. Well, I took my time ordering the better bottles and decided to ferment a few batches in these old 7 gallon buckets with spigots I had sitting in my storage shed. I cleaned them with a 30 minute PBW soak and a 30 minute star san soak. I am concerned they may be the problem.
Anyone? I am going to re-order some glass carboys after I have now lost faith in plastic all-together... I have a 6 gallon Better Bottle but, I used it as the secondary on this last batch and am concerned any infection may have leached over.
Anyone have any suggestions. Outside of the **** plastic fermenters, I took every precaution you can imagine. A few months ago I was making really, really good beers too.