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I used to use Chemipro OXI for disinfection and sometimes the beer tasted like vinegar. Since I have been using Chemipro SAN or Starsan, even with the same plastic fermenter in which the beer went bad before, this has never happened to me again. I wash the fermenter with hot water and spray it with Starsan and close it well. At the beginning of brew, I open it and dry it well and spray it again with Starsan ten minutes before decanting the wort and throw out the Starsan immediately before decanting. A little Starsan that remains in the fermenter is not a problem.
 
After 2 weeks in fermenter I transferred both to keg. I clean kegs with oxi and sanitise both with starsan.
So far everything is ok...I put one keg in kegerator to 1.5psi to carbonize it...fingers crossed
 
After 2 weeks in fermenter and 3 days in kegerator beer is super delicious:)
No infection at all

I've had several cases like this, and those beers have never improved over time. Maybe you didn't have contamination after all.
 
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