Samlbowles
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Sorry if I am posting this and something similar has already been brought up, I have been looking everywhere online for a couple days and I cannot find the answer to this.
I am brand new to kegging. I got a keg from a good friend of mine he picked up somewhere but hadn't ever used it. It was a little cruddy and had liquid in the bottom, most likely a soda, but smelled lemony almost like a sprite. Unsure though. I gave it a good soak with PBW for 24 hours, rinsed it really well, gave it a good soap and rinse, then another quick 2 hour round of PBW because there were still components I could not get out of the keg. Rinsed again and scrubbed down. After all that, the keg was really clean. I sanitized the keg, put it under pressure, and waited until my beer was cold crashed in order to fill it.
I filled the keg with my beer, force carbed, and the beer tasted like it had an underlying beer taste that was mostly cleaner. I ended up dumping that beer, it was undrinkable. I then went to inspect the keg again, and it smelled exactly like the beer tasted. I rinsed it again, cleaned it well, soaped it again, and the cleaner smell was gone. I thought I had eradicated the problem, so I put the lid back on the keg and let it sit while my next beer fermented.
Fast forward to yesterday, I opened the keg back up and the cleaner smell was back, just from sitting there with the lid on! I left the lid off the keg overnight last night and there is no smell in the keg at all.
I put the lid back on for a couple hours and lo and behold, the smell reared its ugly head. I have a brand new lid, brand new o-rings, and brand new posts on the keg. I am completely baffled as to what the issue can be here...
If anyone has any insight I would absolutely love to hear what it could be!
Cheers!
I am brand new to kegging. I got a keg from a good friend of mine he picked up somewhere but hadn't ever used it. It was a little cruddy and had liquid in the bottom, most likely a soda, but smelled lemony almost like a sprite. Unsure though. I gave it a good soak with PBW for 24 hours, rinsed it really well, gave it a good soap and rinse, then another quick 2 hour round of PBW because there were still components I could not get out of the keg. Rinsed again and scrubbed down. After all that, the keg was really clean. I sanitized the keg, put it under pressure, and waited until my beer was cold crashed in order to fill it.
I filled the keg with my beer, force carbed, and the beer tasted like it had an underlying beer taste that was mostly cleaner. I ended up dumping that beer, it was undrinkable. I then went to inspect the keg again, and it smelled exactly like the beer tasted. I rinsed it again, cleaned it well, soaped it again, and the cleaner smell was gone. I thought I had eradicated the problem, so I put the lid back on the keg and let it sit while my next beer fermented.
Fast forward to yesterday, I opened the keg back up and the cleaner smell was back, just from sitting there with the lid on! I left the lid off the keg overnight last night and there is no smell in the keg at all.
I put the lid back on for a couple hours and lo and behold, the smell reared its ugly head. I have a brand new lid, brand new o-rings, and brand new posts on the keg. I am completely baffled as to what the issue can be here...
If anyone has any insight I would absolutely love to hear what it could be!
Cheers!
