8string
Well-Known Member
Most of my homebrews end up with a "yeasty" ring around the bottle neck. I've read that in competitions, judges view that as possible contamination. Is this a rule of thumb, or are there other reasons for the rings? I'm going to try the oxygen-absorbing caps for bottling aged beers (like barleywine). Would these caps also help with preserving hop aroma?
I recently had a batch (one of my last extract brews) that im sure is contaminated. It has a mediciney chloroseptic taste and odor. It was also my first try at reusing yeast, so im sure it must have been an unsanitary starter. Anyone else had this sort of taste/odor?
Back to the bottleneck rings, I use one step and did not rinse the bottles. I just drain them on my recently finished running dish washer rack before bottling. Now I have a bottle washer and spray out each bottle after removing it from the onestep solution. Im also obsessive about cleanliness of bottles, I use a bottle brush and rinse them thoroughly. Just concerned about the rings.
Sampling my Dead Guy with pacman right now. I think its right on!
I recently had a batch (one of my last extract brews) that im sure is contaminated. It has a mediciney chloroseptic taste and odor. It was also my first try at reusing yeast, so im sure it must have been an unsanitary starter. Anyone else had this sort of taste/odor?
Back to the bottleneck rings, I use one step and did not rinse the bottles. I just drain them on my recently finished running dish washer rack before bottling. Now I have a bottle washer and spray out each bottle after removing it from the onestep solution. Im also obsessive about cleanliness of bottles, I use a bottle brush and rinse them thoroughly. Just concerned about the rings.
Sampling my Dead Guy with pacman right now. I think its right on!