They say time heals all...

[eyebrau]

Well, not all, but a lot. My question - what about chlorophenolic beer? If I give it time, is it still gonna taste like a bandaid?

 

[Yooper]

In my experience, chlorophenols do not age out.

 

[beertroll]

I've produced several phenolic beers. One got better, the others did not. The beers that fermented too warm never cleaned up at all. The one that did get better was in a carboy I had cleaned with bleach and only rinsed sixteen billion times instead of seventeen billion. The phenolic taste didn't disappear entirely, but it did diminish.

 

[eyebrau]

So the answer is... Just dump it. It's what I figured, I just thought I'd shoot for the chance. This came from a cheap garden hose. It's the only thing I changed this batch. It's pretty vile. Bleh. If there's only a slight chance of clean up, I'm not gonna waste the space. Thanks guys.