That StarSan Smell...

[ericbw]

It's a discussion forum. So someone says hey my star San stinks. Anyone have that happen?

No
No
No
Yes kind of
No
No, that's weird
What's star San?
No
Maybe it's contaminated?
No

That's s discussion. Too bad you were wasting your time on a discussion forum and people wasted your time. Hahaha

 

[Gentlemans_Ale]

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[k1ngl1ves]

Oh man if I had a dollar for every time someone in a thread went "I've never had that problem"--I mean I googled "Star san sulphur" that got me here... that's likely an indication that my star san smells like sulphur, not that it doesn't smell like sulphur. If no one else on Earth had this problem I'd just assume no one would start a thread saying that their star san smelled like sulphur, I don't need to read about all the people whose star san never smelled like sulphur.

My Starsan has never smelled like sulphur.

 

[rmchair]

This is hilarious. Star San defenders versus the obviously paranoid smell guy. Im going to side with the latter. Telling somebody they must have something wrong with "their water" is flat out bullying,

 

[Shiggity]

That's s discussion. Too bad you were wasting your time on a discussion forum and people wasted your time. Hahaha

It's just that if people aren't discouraged to write things like "no that hasn't happened to me" or "what's star san" sometimes you end up with pages of those kinds of answers so I tend to push back on them. I also realize that part of a great forum like this *is* based on the humanity of *some* irrelevant discourse and *isn't* people like myself acting like the internet police and I don't mean to do that, so in the greater scheme of things I don't know whether my venting actually had any net positive effect. Maybe not.

 

[geoffey]

Oops.

 

[geoffey]

It's just that if people aren't discouraged to write things like "no that hasn't happened to me" or "what's star san" sometimes you end up with pages of those kinds of answers so I tend to push back on them. I also realize that part of a great forum like this *is* based on the humanity of *some* irrelevant discourse and *isn't* people like myself acting like the internet police and I don't mean to do that, so in the greater scheme of things I don't know whether my venting actually had any net positive effect. Maybe not.

Meh. I think it's helpful for someone without much experience in brewing to see someone respond the way Hunter did. What it really means if you're paying attention is "yes, that's unusual for star San to smell that way".

I wish I had more info to be able to add to the discussion of "why" but all I can add is that I don't have that experience with star San. Also, thread had been dead for two years and was only resurrected due to your rant. This may not really be a relevant issue at this point.

 

[ericbw]

It wasn't resurrected after 2 years due to the rant. It was dead for 5 months.

 

[hunter_le five]

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[geoffey]

It wasn't resurrected after 2 years due to the rant. It was dead for 5 months.

Yep, corrected.

Also OP thought he found the cause. Perhaps it would be more useful to check that if your star San smells instead of posting something insulting about someone who hasn't experienced the issue.

 

[ChefRex]

Yep, corrected.

Also OP thought he found the cause. Perhaps it would be more useful to check that if your star San smells instead of posting something insulting about someone who hasn't experienced the issue.

Do you think his bottle of StarSan is infected?

 

[Shiggity]

Yep, corrected.

Also OP thought he found the cause. Perhaps it would be more useful to check that if your star San smells instead of posting something insulting about someone who hasn't experienced the issue.

jfc I wasn't trying to insult anyone. I was critical of the action, not defaming the guy's character. If you were to regard my critique as useful, it wouldn't be "insulting"--but you and some others don't think it was useful and 'tis already duly noted. Cheers

 

[benco]

So obviously your a good brewer and have been on HBT for five years. So you see this thread and google star san smell and then begin insulting everyone! lol!

 

[ericbw]

Ok I think we've all aired out grievances.

 

[Fedora]

I agree.

 

[hunter_le five]

Good, now it's time for the Feats of Strength.

 

[berrywise]

2019 bump.

Haven't brewed in a while. Put a couple gallons of tap waters and some StarSan into a bucket. Put my mini submersible pump that came with my keg washer in the bucket to recirculate sanitizer through my plate chiller. No smell at first, but left it run while I went to run some errands. Came back and a funky smell is coming out of it.

Googled Starsan Smell and found this thread

 

[kh54s10]

Like I stated back in 2016, I have had Starsan in a 5 gallon water bottle for years. In spray bottles. Had a cracked cap, Rhode Island and Florida water. Never anything offensive or even noticeable in 7 3/4 years!