Okay...so how do some of the bottles taste salty?

[iamwhatiseem]

I brewed the Caribou Slobber weeks ago, and wrote a thread about how well everything went...including the taste.
However, into my 9th bottle (no not all at once) and this bottle makes the 2nd one that has a clear salty taste. Like seawater.
All bottles were bottled at same time of course, I put the primer in the bottling bucket - so all bottles should have the exact same amount of primer...all stored together...I can't think of a single thing that could be something different I did in just some of the bottles....what the heck?

All and any advice/comments appreciated.

 

[KyGooglenerd]

I had the same issue with my very first batch...a brewer's best cream ale. It was distinctly salty at 2 weeks after bottling but cleared up at about 4 weeks. I'd also like to read up on this issue...

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Well I sure hope so...weird how just some of the bottles are this way.
All new bottles, all stored exactly the same etc. etc.
Strange.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Opened another - divine. No salty taste at all.
This is bugging me.

 

[gcdowd]

Could there have been some residue in only some of the bottles? It's gotta be in the bottles I would think.

 

[seigex]

What did you use to clean the bottles?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

UPDATE: Had my first beer party last night, I was as nervous as an alley cat....scared to freakin death it would end in shame as people started puckering their faces getting these salty beers.
But - I am very happy to say, 23 bottles emptied and no salt beers.
WHEW!!
To answer above, because I am still very interested how this strange occurrence did happen:

1) All of the bottles were brand new.
2) I santitized the bottles in Star-san.
3) All were stored in the empty box they came in, in a dark room.
I can't think of anything that could be different between bottles.
But after 23 good bottles in a row now - perhaps as mentioned early in this thread - it was still too young and not conditioned well enough.
But salty?