mhermetz
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty frustrated at this point. My latest beer a NEIPA has this same flavour that has been plaguing me for sometime now. I describe it as being a lingering harshness and my wife who is new to beer said it was like cabbage.
Which funny enough perked me up because I've read this can be a bacterial infection. However I have absolutely no damn clue where that could have come from.
That's because my process is fairly simple. I ferment in kegs and then I used the fermentasaurus ball float to pour my beer from the top of the keg rather the the bottom. This allows me to save transferring. As a note this is a completely new beer so it can't be that I've left it on the yeast cake too long.
So if it is indeed bacterial it has to come from 2 places. My CFC, the output hose of that CFC, or my keg itself.
I was kind of on this path before this beer so I did a deep clea of my kegs by letting them soak in pbw for 2 days. Rinsed and then sat in Sanitizer until I was ready for them. Dismantled and all that jazz too with the same process.
My CFC I did the best I could ran cleaner and sanitized. If there a better way to ensure I got everything that could be in there?
My hose from the cfc to my keg. Its brown. I did run a brush through but it is a little old so maybe he silicone tube has a groove or scratch in it that harbouring this bacteria?
Other than that I'm at a loss for what I could do.
Which funny enough perked me up because I've read this can be a bacterial infection. However I have absolutely no damn clue where that could have come from.
That's because my process is fairly simple. I ferment in kegs and then I used the fermentasaurus ball float to pour my beer from the top of the keg rather the the bottom. This allows me to save transferring. As a note this is a completely new beer so it can't be that I've left it on the yeast cake too long.
So if it is indeed bacterial it has to come from 2 places. My CFC, the output hose of that CFC, or my keg itself.
I was kind of on this path before this beer so I did a deep clea of my kegs by letting them soak in pbw for 2 days. Rinsed and then sat in Sanitizer until I was ready for them. Dismantled and all that jazz too with the same process.
My CFC I did the best I could ran cleaner and sanitized. If there a better way to ensure I got everything that could be in there?
My hose from the cfc to my keg. Its brown. I did run a brush through but it is a little old so maybe he silicone tube has a groove or scratch in it that harbouring this bacteria?
Other than that I'm at a loss for what I could do.