Hi All,
Not new to the forum but new to posting. I have read lots on here that's helped me, but i have hit a snag.
I have been brewing for about a year. I have never had an infection until recently. I have had to throw 3 kegs down the drain... in a row!! It's killing me, to point where I sometimes want to quit.
I was doing Partial mash on the stove top using the BIAB method. I had no chiller, wasn't overly sanitary and never had a problem. My natural progression of wanting to make better beers I went to AG.
This is when the problem started, I have been using:
I really stepped up the sanitation after the first one. Cleaned everything! used starsan etc. I finally thought my old plastic fermenter was the culprit.
I now have a new beer on with a new fermenter. Everything went well and frementation started within 3 hours. Used safale-04. everything looks right in the fermenter. However, it smells almost like a bad cheap wine. (only been fermenting since Sunday) Kinda taste like one too.
Is this infected as well? It is nothing like the last 3 batched but still smells odd. Am I being way to dramatic here?
Thanks in advance.
SImo
Not new to the forum but new to posting. I have read lots on here that's helped me, but i have hit a snag.
I have been brewing for about a year. I have never had an infection until recently. I have had to throw 3 kegs down the drain... in a row!! It's killing me, to point where I sometimes want to quit.
I was doing Partial mash on the stove top using the BIAB method. I had no chiller, wasn't overly sanitary and never had a problem. My natural progression of wanting to make better beers I went to AG.
This is when the problem started, I have been using:
- a keggle.
- BIAB method.
- I now have an immersion chiller. (left in 20 mins before flameout)
I really stepped up the sanitation after the first one. Cleaned everything! used starsan etc. I finally thought my old plastic fermenter was the culprit.
I now have a new beer on with a new fermenter. Everything went well and frementation started within 3 hours. Used safale-04. everything looks right in the fermenter. However, it smells almost like a bad cheap wine. (only been fermenting since Sunday) Kinda taste like one too.
Is this infected as well? It is nothing like the last 3 batched but still smells odd. Am I being way to dramatic here?
Thanks in advance.
SImo