I bought a conical about a month ago and am on my second batch of beer.
The first batch of beer a made seemed to have got a lactic infection.
It had an off vinegary cidery smell to it.
I ended up dumping the batch.
Anyways I made another batch thinking it was a lactic infection I went to the extremes of adding a mixture of PBW, Bleach and boiling hot water to the conical.
I filled it up to the top let it sit for 30 minutes then drained out of both ports and rinsed like 10 times.
Now i'm on my second batch. I have been doing dumps often and even added insinglass to my beer after primary fermentation was done. Today I decided to give the beer a wiff and I noticed that same smell but not nearly as bad as the first batch but its faintly there.
I am so pissed off right now.
The only thing I can think of is that its contaminated again. I had 2 or 3 white clumps that looked like when milk goes bad and clumps sitting at the top of the fermenter. Around the sides where the krausen left a ring around the fermenter some parts were like a dark purple looking color.
I have racked to a sanitized glass carboy now. I know if its infected I'm SOL but it made me feel better because I cannot let it sit in their one more day.
I have never had infection problems before getting this conical. Its an ebay one cheapo.
I have always used plastic or Glass in the past.
from what I have described does this sound like it could be infected again.
The first batch of beer a made seemed to have got a lactic infection.
It had an off vinegary cidery smell to it.
I ended up dumping the batch.
Anyways I made another batch thinking it was a lactic infection I went to the extremes of adding a mixture of PBW, Bleach and boiling hot water to the conical.
I filled it up to the top let it sit for 30 minutes then drained out of both ports and rinsed like 10 times.
Now i'm on my second batch. I have been doing dumps often and even added insinglass to my beer after primary fermentation was done. Today I decided to give the beer a wiff and I noticed that same smell but not nearly as bad as the first batch but its faintly there.
I am so pissed off right now.
The only thing I can think of is that its contaminated again. I had 2 or 3 white clumps that looked like when milk goes bad and clumps sitting at the top of the fermenter. Around the sides where the krausen left a ring around the fermenter some parts were like a dark purple looking color.
I have racked to a sanitized glass carboy now. I know if its infected I'm SOL but it made me feel better because I cannot let it sit in their one more day.
I have never had infection problems before getting this conical. Its an ebay one cheapo.
I have always used plastic or Glass in the past.
from what I have described does this sound like it could be infected again.