First Keg in the new keezer caught the clap

[Tacosaurus]

I think he's gonna try water to see if it imparts that awful taste.

I would....

Yes, I am going to do this.

 

[Tacosaurus]

Yes, I am going to do this.

Haven't abandoned this, had a busy week and was waiting on a few beer washers in the mail. I'll hook it up tomorrow with a keg filled with a gallon of distilled water.

Ive kept a picnic tap on the beer all week and have been drinking from it. Same thing is happening. I poured out the first ~6oz tonight and the first 2 full beers still has it to a point of ruining the pour.

I'm extremely sensitive to this taste, the distilled water experiment I believe will tell a lot. My SO said she could definitely taste that the beer was off first pour, but she really isn't a beer person. One thing that I don't know is noteworthy or not. Her quote, "this tastes like the inside of the keezer smells." 😯

Are vinyl hose permeable to the extent that the internal environment can leech in off flavors? The freezer being used is brand new, but I suspect there could be chemical protectants or whatever. I didn't do a full wash down, but have used water, star san and small amounts of dawn free cleaning up beer puddles. Just a thought.

If this is something that is normal, is there a conditioning period for plastic/vinyl equiptment to not pass on these flavors? Is there an alternate line type I should look into if after a few weeks I still can't get past the apparent equiptment flavor?

 

[TallDan]

Haven't abandoned this, had a busy week and was waiting on a few beer washers in the mail. I'll hook it up tomorrow with a keg filled with a gallon of distilled water.



Ive kept a picnic tap on the beer all week and have been drinking from it. Same thing is happening. I poured out the first ~6oz tonight and the first 2 full beers still has it to a point of ruining the pour.



I'm extremely sensitive to this taste, the distilled water experiment I believe will tell a lot. My SO said she could definitely taste that the beer was off first pour, but she really isn't a beer person. One thing that I don't know is noteworthy or not. Her quote, "this tastes like the inside of the keezer smells." [emoji54]



Are vinyl hose permeable to the extent that the internal environment can leech in off flavors? The freezer being used is brand new, but I suspect there could be chemical protectants or whatever. I didn't do a full wash down, but have used water, star san and small amounts of dawn free cleaning up beer puddles. Just a thought.



If this is something that is normal, is there a conditioning period for plastic/vinyl equiptment to not pass on these flavors? Is there an alternate line type I should look into if after a few weeks I still can't get past the apparent equiptment flavor?

Bev-seal ultra. It's stiffer than vinyl, so harder to get on your fittings and deal with in the keezer, but to me it's worth the hassle.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Are you using food grade beer lines?

 

[Tacosaurus]

Bev-seal ultra. It's stiffer than vinyl, so harder to get on your fittings and deal with in the keezer, but to me it's worth the hassle.

Thanks for the suggestion. I read up on those, alongside the Guest fittings for QDs. I may go that route. I already have some vinyl line so I'll finish out this experiment with distilled water, and probably finish out the keg prior to determining a switch.

 

[Tacosaurus]

Are you using food grade beer lines?

Yes, the purchasing source for the first set was AIH, they came as part of a shank assembly. The current set from my LHBS. I'm putting the distilled water in today per your suggestion.