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    Help - Killer Infection

    Greetings and salutations! Bought a new fermenter on friday! Sanitised the shed again, and the new fermenter! Sanitised the grain bag and kettle, Didnt use any of the old things I used to, such as a plastic funnel, or a filter bag! Just mashed for an hour, and boiled hard for an hour an a half...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Oh and no I dont crush my own grain! And if it could prolong this problem , i never will!
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Thanks guys, the new fermenter will be ready for the weekend! I have let the first few infected ones go right through and keg them! Still rubbish, in fact very funny watching the neighbour who quite likes beer, see just how long he could hold them in his mouth for!! Its happened so many times...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    :( Hey guys! Just a quick up date! I think I might need to burn my shed!! My latest batch has gone bad after wiping all table space in the shed with straight white king, washed all the equiptment with white king and all the fermenters too! I dont know a lot about yeast except that i hate this...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Hey guys, Thanks for all the advice! I have just finished going over the whole god forsaken shed with white king! The good news is i dont think i have finger prints any more and if I do, they are clean finger prints! The fermenter is currently filled with more white king and ill rinse it out...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Yeah I think i am using sodium met.... I would think that because the wort is almost boiling when it goes into the fermenters it must be either airborne or in grained in the fermenter and able to survive even with hot wort over it! The wort isnt stringy or snotty- just normal, even after the...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Thanks darren I ll give it a crack with filtered water then
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Mash about an hour and a half, single step infusion, as per dave lines brewing beers like those you buy! Mains water! I use a grain bag in the boiling vessel ( keg) then pull the bag out to sparge, so there is no transfer where it could catch anything, then i pour straight from the boiler into...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    For an hour and a half!
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    Help - Killer Infection

    It smells sweet, very kind of fusil alcohole i guess, and the taste, well spitting out instantly bad! The brew i made the day before christmas, the infection had been there less than eight hours, and i thought i might be able to boil it and pasteurise it, but the taste was already well and truly...
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Yeah proper home brew store cleaner, that i clean the keg with, just pumped through, and then rinsed when i rinse the keg!
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    Help - Killer Infection

    which taps? I clean whenever i change my kegs over!? Is tghis what you mean?
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    Help - Killer Infection

    Do you mean the Keg lines? Yeah I do- but the problem is way before it even gets to the kegging stage! If you mean the mash tun lines i have done also but to no avail!
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