jamnich314
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The first batch I brewed was a Brewers Best Pumpkin Spice Porter kit. It say in primary for about three weeks then I bottled it. I tried some when I took my FG sample before bottling and it tasted pretty good. I let it sit in the bottles for two weeks and put one in the fridge just to see how it was expecting it to still taste "green."
It had a pretty nasty after taste that seemed like a cross between cleaner/plastic. I figured that was the "green" taste people had talked about so I dumped it and waited. It's been two more weeks so I tried another tonight. The taste is still there. I had my wife try it to make sure it wasn't just me and she spit it out back into the bottle saying it tasted like cleaner. You can even smell it. It smells like the bad taste.
I used StarSan for all of my sanitation. I don't know what happened. Did I somehow get an infection during the two weeks after bottling? Would leaving a few drops of the sanitizing solution in the bottle after cleaning and drying cause this (I dried them for a while but they weren't bone dry). I used the suggested concentration of StarSan to water. Would using new vs. used bottles make a difference? It doesn't seem like any flavor leaching since it didn't taste that way before bottling and it was only in the bottling bucket for an hour tops.
I'm really hoping my first batch isn't ruined. I know people say to let them condition in the bottles but it's been a month now and I don't see the bad taste going away. For what it's worth, when I tried the one today, I didn't really notice the horrible after-taste until a couple swigs in (I drank it out of the bottle in case it was still bad...didn't want to have to clean a glass for no reason).
Any ideas?
It had a pretty nasty after taste that seemed like a cross between cleaner/plastic. I figured that was the "green" taste people had talked about so I dumped it and waited. It's been two more weeks so I tried another tonight. The taste is still there. I had my wife try it to make sure it wasn't just me and she spit it out back into the bottle saying it tasted like cleaner. You can even smell it. It smells like the bad taste.
I used StarSan for all of my sanitation. I don't know what happened. Did I somehow get an infection during the two weeks after bottling? Would leaving a few drops of the sanitizing solution in the bottle after cleaning and drying cause this (I dried them for a while but they weren't bone dry). I used the suggested concentration of StarSan to water. Would using new vs. used bottles make a difference? It doesn't seem like any flavor leaching since it didn't taste that way before bottling and it was only in the bottling bucket for an hour tops.
I'm really hoping my first batch isn't ruined. I know people say to let them condition in the bottles but it's been a month now and I don't see the bad taste going away. For what it's worth, when I tried the one today, I didn't really notice the horrible after-taste until a couple swigs in (I drank it out of the bottle in case it was still bad...didn't want to have to clean a glass for no reason).
Any ideas?