My keg tastes terrible.

[Tim H]

lots of good advice here. I am having the same issues, but it seems like a regiment change is in order.

 

[Gary Baker]

lots of good advice here. I am having the same issues, but it seems like a regiment change is in order.

Just make sure your beer lines are clean. I always clean my kegs with PBW first-then water-and then Starsan. In each case I connect keg to Co2 and run thru the line. My final step is to leave some Starsan in the beer line to keep the nasties out.

Never had a problem.

 

[eric19312]

I have been having a very similar problem. I wash with pbw, star san, then purge/keg. Beer tastes fine at this point from the tap while flat. A few weeks later I would have a bitter, metallic taste. This last batch, I rinsed as usual (I'm a water waster and figured I was rinsing enough). After my normal rinse procedure everything seemed good, no residue feeling inside the keg. I then filled it up all the way in the driveway where I had good sunlight. I could see very few grains of the pbw still floating in the water. Not much, but it was there. I rinsed the crap out of the keg again and sanitized and kegged. One month later, no bitter metallic taste and a very fine Scotch ale running low. I'm kegging up a couple this week and hopefully will have the same results.

Way to resurrect an old thread!

 

[doogie]

You need to thoroughly rinse after using PBW. I didn't see that in your process.

 

[ScrewyBrewer]

Try heating a solution of Beer Line Cleaner to 140F and pumping it through the taps and lines for twenty minutes. You'll be surprised at the shmutz that it dissolves from 'cleaned' beer lines.

 

[okiedog]

+1 for cleaning your beer lines and connectors.

 

[Tim H]

You need to thoroughly rinse after using PBW. I didn't see that in your process.

I think that’s my issue. I soaked the lines and connectors, but I was using hose water that only comes out at 70ish degrees and probably didn’t do a great job cleaning.

 

[jschein]

Try heating a solution of Beer Line Cleaner to 140F and pumping it through the taps and lines for twenty minutes. You'll be surprised at the shmutz that it dissolves from 'cleaned' beer lines.

This ^^^ 140 for the rinse too! Feel the running’s and when you no non longer feel the BLC good to go