Off Flavor

[jslive4now]

Bottled my 3rd batch just under 3 weeks ago.. A Pumpkin Pie Spice.. Currently almost 6 weeks old.. Tasted great at bottling, little light in spice added some more at bottling.. Now beer has a plastic, vinyl taste on tongue at the end and is not getting better.. From what I've found could be caused for using chlorinated water .. I used bottle distilled water except for when making my sanitizer.. I used tap and used tap to rinse bottling bucket of dust prior to sanitizing?? So... Your opinion.. Screwed??

Totally bummed....

 

[cannman]

I've had this problem in my beers before. It has to do with bottling practices. I boil the spigot from my bottle bucket before each use and THEN sanitize it. Make sure that bucket is CLEAN. Oxyclean, scrub it, rise it, sanitize it. REPLACE YOUR LINES. Chances are you might be harboring some nasties in your old tubes. The lines are cheap, replace before you brew again.

One beer that I brewed that picked up the off flavor was able to be fixed. I found that the plastic flavor was kept in the yeast layer in the beer of the beer. Therefore, I conditioned for 21 days @ 64f STANDING UP not on its side, and when pouring, I made sure not to disturb the yeast later and essential decant the beer into my glass. YUM.

Good luck!

 

[jslive4now]

I've had this problem in my beers before. It has to do with bottling practices. I boil the spigot from my bottle bucket before each use and THEN sanitize it. Make sure that bucket is CLEAN. Oxyclean, scrub it, rise it, sanitize it. REPLACE YOUR LINES. Chances are you might be harboring some nasties in your old tubes. The lines are cheap, replace before you brew again.

One beer that I brewed that picked up the off flavor was able to be fixed. I found that the plastic flavor was kept in the yeast layer in the beer of the beer. Therefore, I conditioned for 21 days @ 64f STANDING UP not on its side, and when pouring, I made sure not to disturb the yeast later and essential decant the beer into my glass. YUM.

Good luck!

Its already been bottle conditioning for 3 weeks... So maybe some good cold conditioning in the fridge for some time to drop the yeasties will help???

And thank you for you advice..