No Successful Homebrew Attempts

[LCTitan]

1 on replacing tubing - I change my racking tubes often, they just seem to have a hard time drying out no matter what I do. They are cheap enough for a couple of feet that I easily feel justified. As hard as we work to make quality beer, a 20 inch section of 1.50 hose is not worth screwing up a batch.



If you have an Air Compressor try blowing some air through it before storing. Run some hot water through it and then sanitize just prior to using it. This should help with that problem.

 

[Legin]

Thats exactly where mine happens. I always taste it when racking to secondary, then again from secondary to bottling. The beer tastes fine both times. In fact, it tastes great coming out of secondary. Again, I can't pinpoint anything in my bottling procedure that would be the culprit.

If you've pinpointed it in this stage, it might be related to contamination in your spigot (as Revvy suggested), bucket, or maybe siphon even (but probably not). I'm convinced it's my bucket, and I'm not certain if iodophor is doing a proper job removing residue or getting between the cracks. I'll probably soak all my bottling equipment in a heavier "cleaning" solution and see if that helps.

Then again, I was reading up on a post about adding priming sugar and Austin Homebrew chimed in about contamination being very unlikely in the bottling stage because of the alcohol present in the beer making it impossible for contamination. Don't know if it's impossible, but I do know it is less likely.

Edit: So even your kegged beers had the same, identical taste?