hungrymonkey
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I receieved a gift certificate for the brew store this year for my birthday, I bought the starter kit and have brewed up 15 gallons of beer so far. My first batch is a new castle clone.
I bumbled through my first brew, following the directions and the charlie papizan book.
I let it go a week in the primary, then around 2 weeks in the secondary, then bottled about ten days ago.
Tonight I opened up one of the bottles and it had a bandaid taste. I used bleach to scrub the bottles and help remove the lables, After using the bleach I rinsed 3 times and then let them sit for a week. for bottling I filled the bottling bucket with Iodiphor and water and immersed them in the mix and let air dry
The bottle I drank from was the last bottle that I filled. It was to the point where there was not enough beer to run through the tubing, so I poured from the bottling bucket into the bottle. It was about 2/3 full. I figured I would use it as a test bottle for tasting early. I was thinking I would get some off flavor from it from the improper way I bottled. But I was not expecting the medical tape flavor.
Probable causes:
I used my cities tap water, bleach for cleaning bottles, or contamination with this one bottle from the way I poured it in.
Unfortunantly I drank the off flavored bottle, then a comercial bottle of newcastle, now I am on my 3rd beer which is from the same batch of home brew.
I cannot taste or smell the bandaid flavor as much. But I cannot tell if it is from my palate still having the botched beer on it, or if it is from it being my 3rd beer and I am feeling a bit goofy :cross:
I figure I would give it another week in the bottles and see if the bandaid flavor is still present in the other bottles.
No real point to my post, other than to say hello, I am new to brewing and the forum. Beer always tastes better after the first one
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That and to ask if I do have a bandaid flavor, will it mellow with age?
I bumbled through my first brew, following the directions and the charlie papizan book.
I let it go a week in the primary, then around 2 weeks in the secondary, then bottled about ten days ago.
Tonight I opened up one of the bottles and it had a bandaid taste. I used bleach to scrub the bottles and help remove the lables, After using the bleach I rinsed 3 times and then let them sit for a week. for bottling I filled the bottling bucket with Iodiphor and water and immersed them in the mix and let air dry
The bottle I drank from was the last bottle that I filled. It was to the point where there was not enough beer to run through the tubing, so I poured from the bottling bucket into the bottle. It was about 2/3 full. I figured I would use it as a test bottle for tasting early. I was thinking I would get some off flavor from it from the improper way I bottled. But I was not expecting the medical tape flavor.
Probable causes:
I used my cities tap water, bleach for cleaning bottles, or contamination with this one bottle from the way I poured it in.
Unfortunantly I drank the off flavored bottle, then a comercial bottle of newcastle, now I am on my 3rd beer which is from the same batch of home brew.
I cannot taste or smell the bandaid flavor as much. But I cannot tell if it is from my palate still having the botched beer on it, or if it is from it being my 3rd beer and I am feeling a bit goofy :cross:
I figure I would give it another week in the bottles and see if the bandaid flavor is still present in the other bottles.
No real point to my post, other than to say hello, I am new to brewing and the forum. Beer always tastes better after the first one
.That and to ask if I do have a bandaid flavor, will it mellow with age?
With a few simple tweaks in my process from things I learned here, I am now brewing beer that friends and family actually prefer over commercial brews. Heck, I got my BIL (who likes Keystone Light for petes sake) to start drinking Maibock and IPAs! But there are some that will still prefer a weak flavored watered down commercial brew because that is their preference.
