Damn It...bloody Plastic Taste

[jbirbeck]

what are the chances a very strong plastic taste will dissipate??

I did up a double batch of a Pils, the mash went well, the boil went well the drain went well. I no-chill so I drained from the kettle to my 'new' fermenter drain temp was about 60 degrees. I got the fermenter around Christmas time and had used it to store sterilizer for my other smaller fermenters. It had a slight plastic smell when i got it, but it had been well aired, stored the sterilizer, used for racking and used for bottling a few times. No plastic smell in the fermenter. No plastic taste in the brews that had run through it. I thought I was in the clear...

BUT, the pils I just did, it smells and tastes like I've set fire to plastic and dropped it in the brew . Smell and taste going into the fermenter was fine.

I have kind of accepted the fact that I've stuffed it and perhaps should have run hot water into the fermenter to get rid of the taste/smell... But, I'm happy to let it sit if there is a chance the plastic taste will dissipate. Any chance?

 

[Adamt]

Is this post fermentation? It could either be from the fermenter or phenolics produced by the yeast (most likely an unwanted yeast, i.e. an infection). Would a bandaid-like smell be an appropriate description?

Before putting precious brew in any new plastic containers, throw a few litres of boiling water in and give it a shake (carefully!). Let it cool, draw off some water and smell/taste it.

 

[jbirbeck]

Yep post fermentation (although I didn't taste during ferm...). Yeast was a reculture of a Wyeast Munich. Fermented perhaps a tad higher than ideal (around 18 deg). It tastes just as it smells if you were to set fire to a ball of glad wrap or you chucked in a PET bottle into a bonfire. I didn't get a bandaid taste, but I'll give it another taste when I get home tonight.

Will be giving my second new fermenter a good boiling/hot water treatment, and the first will get another one before I do the replacement brew.

thanks.