5 QUESTIONS: Racked 4 gal of beer on 1 gal starsan solution in keg -- can I fix it?

[smaro]

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.

 

[Homercidal]

I see nobody at your house wastes time by putting the Toilet Paper roll on the dispenser.

We recently ordered one for our remodeled back bathroom that you just slip the roll on. No spring loaded doohickie, just remove roll from carton, slip on the dispenser.

And my wife and I are betting it STILL doesn't get used!

 

[Pappers_]

Whew, glad you're alright and back at the brewing!

Thanks for sharing the laugh with us, we've all done stuff like this and it helps to chuckle about it. My favorite was when I made a cider and decided to add ginger to it, because I like ginger, without even trying a little bit of the two flavors combined first. I learned that there is a reason that no one ever puts ginger in apple pie. Or apple anything. Just horrible. Or there was the time half-way through kegging an APA that I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten to dry hop it. *dope slap* Threw a bag of hops into the keg and that sorta of fixed that, but still, how does one forget something like that?

The IIPA sounds great, I'm bottling a IIPA tonight, haven't thought of a name for it yet - used a pound of hops total in it, quite the expensive beer, so maybe something related to that.

In any case, glad you've resurfaced and none the worse for wear!

 

[1977Brewer]

*golf clap* good job on not dying.

 

[evanmars]

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[MattyIce]

Well at least you got some kickass house shoes