Band Aid flavor

[bwible]

So I think I have an answer to this one. I have (had) a small spray bottle that I thought was full of star san that I had been using for spot sanitizing. Its the only small spray bottle in the house. So yesterday I saw my wife cleaning with it and asked “what are you doing with my star san bottle?” Turns out she had no idea what star san is, thought the bottle had water in it. She dumped out my star san and filled it with - bleach water for cleaning. So I guess I’ve been spot sanitizing here and there with bleach water and not rinsing. I’m guessing that would do it and it probably wouldn’t take much for a 3 gallon batch. Still wondering why that wouldn’t have been apparent at bottling though. Now I’m going to go buy a new spray bottle and write star san on it in big letters with a sharpie.

 

[day_trippr]

 

[bwible]

Yeah this belongs in the “don’t do that” thread. Stupid

 

[porterguy]

I've always wondered how the hell anyone knows what bandaid flavor is like? Do you chew them raw? Should I boil or bake them first? Does a dash of salt improve the flavor?

 

[balrog]

I've always wondered how the hell anyone knows what bandaid flavor is like? Do you chew them raw? Should I boil or bake them first? Does a dash of salt improve the flavor?

It's a pretty distinctive smell/taste when you get it. Tastes like it smells kinda thing.

There's a smokey scotch joke hiding in there somewhere...

 

[bwible]

 

[bwible]

I've always wondered how the hell anyone knows what bandaid flavor is like? Do you chew them raw? Should I boil or bake them first? Does a dash of salt improve the flavor?

Don’t put them in your mash.

I read somewhere recently, forget where, somebody described phenols as a “burning hospital” flavor. Now there’s one I ask how do you know what a burning hospital tastes like?

 

[hotbeer]

Perhaps the cardboard box that band-aids mostly come in now don't get as strong aroma about them as the ones that come in the metal can most of us grew up with.

 

[IslandLizard]

So I guess I’ve been spot sanitizing here and there with bleach water and not rinsing.

I'm surprised you didn't smell the bleach right there...

Glad you found the culprit, though. Who would have thunk?

 

[balrog]

Terri Garr, Joan Cusack, John Travolta??!!

 

[bwible]

I'm surprised you didn't smell the bleach right there...

I thought that too, right? I don’t know, maybe the other smells - mash, boil, hops, etc

 

[balrog]

They've gone wild with versions of Clorox that are less smelly, lemon smelly, fresh pine mountain view tropical thunder agnostic wolverine smelly, so you could've missed it.

 

[Ninoid]

Silicone hose, 130 batches of beer, Starsan (or Chemiprosan) for disinfection after each bottling, zero infection.

 

[jcfontario]

Terri Garr, Joan Cusack, John Travolta??!!

That was my first thought also when I saw this. Travolta - yes. Garr - maybe. Cusack - dunno.

 

[JP_BeerFan]

I hope I never experience an agnostic wolverine off flavor in my brews!