Lawl.
Back from the dead and I suppose it's time to nightcap this one. Sorry to disappoint but there was no medical emergency nor explosive GI blowouts..
I ended up slowly bringing the temp down below freezing until enough of a layer of ice existed at the top of the keg to easily remove -- with hopes to bring down the water content and bring up the flavor (and yes, the starsan %). I did this not to save the beer, but to be able to taste it to get an idea of what the flavor may have been like.
For what it's worth, while the flavor did reveal itself much better, for those who say StarSan is tasteless.. well you're wrong. No surprise here, the beer wasn't going to fool anyone. I did let a couple friends taste it (they were given full disclosure of the situation), and one said he could tell something was off and one said it tasted fine. Of course the idea was to spit it out after tasting it out. One thing to point out: it was extremely hazy and extra foamy--even after cold crashing and drawing out any lasting sediment layers after letting it sit for a number of days.
I was playing around with the concept of adding more beer to bring down the StarSan ratio.. but of course, as most have mentioned, this is a high risk of wasting what could otherwise be a good 2nd beer. I'm sure if I were to, say, add this to 19 other batches then it would be perfectly fine by anyone's standards.. but alas I am not in the business of mass-producing using the mega-brewery common pilsner method.
Needlesstosay, I had my cry, and did what I had to:
...I have since moved on and made my fav brew yet, a superb double IPA, appropriately named the "Redemption IPA". It was a good learning experience, and a mistake never to be made again.
Back from the dead and I suppose it's time to nightcap this one. Sorry to disappoint but there was no medical emergency nor explosive GI blowouts..
I ended up slowly bringing the temp down below freezing until enough of a layer of ice existed at the top of the keg to easily remove -- with hopes to bring down the water content and bring up the flavor (and yes, the starsan %). I did this not to save the beer, but to be able to taste it to get an idea of what the flavor may have been like.
For what it's worth, while the flavor did reveal itself much better, for those who say StarSan is tasteless.. well you're wrong. No surprise here, the beer wasn't going to fool anyone. I did let a couple friends taste it (they were given full disclosure of the situation), and one said he could tell something was off and one said it tasted fine. Of course the idea was to spit it out after tasting it out. One thing to point out: it was extremely hazy and extra foamy--even after cold crashing and drawing out any lasting sediment layers after letting it sit for a number of days.
I was playing around with the concept of adding more beer to bring down the StarSan ratio.. but of course, as most have mentioned, this is a high risk of wasting what could otherwise be a good 2nd beer. I'm sure if I were to, say, add this to 19 other batches then it would be perfectly fine by anyone's standards.. but alas I am not in the business of mass-producing using the mega-brewery common pilsner method.
Needlesstosay, I had my cry, and did what I had to:
...I have since moved on and made my fav brew yet, a superb double IPA, appropriately named the "Redemption IPA". It was a good learning experience, and a mistake never to be made again.
