Count Vorlauf
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A friend who is getting into extract brewing came to me with a problem batch. He had done everything the same way as before (he said) but was getting this really metallic taste in the latest batch he had brewed. He is partial to Coopers Sparkling Ale kits. I immediately asked him if he was using the kit yeast, but he was using Fermentis US-05 dry yeast that he hadn't had any trouble with previously. He did tell me that he brewed this batch at a holiday home, so I asked him if he'd gotten a water report - maybe high levels of iron in the water or rusty pipes in the old shack? What sort of kettle was he using? Yes, it was aluminium but he had never had a problem using the same pot before and . Did he see rust around the bottle caps. No go. He'd stumped this chump.
Yesterday he comes back to me with a possible answer.
He had diligently drank his way through the bad beer (nothing else in the fridge at the shack, I guess!), had started getting around to bottles from the same batch that tasted fine, and suddenly it dawned on him. He had used sanitizing solution on some of the bottles, which had developed this metallic taste. The ones that he had just rinsed out with water were fine. The sanitizing solution is at the holiday house so he isn't sure what brand it is.
Anyone ever hear of such a thing?
Yesterday he comes back to me with a possible answer.
He had diligently drank his way through the bad beer (nothing else in the fridge at the shack, I guess!), had started getting around to bottles from the same batch that tasted fine, and suddenly it dawned on him. He had used sanitizing solution on some of the bottles, which had developed this metallic taste. The ones that he had just rinsed out with water were fine. The sanitizing solution is at the holiday house so he isn't sure what brand it is.
Anyone ever hear of such a thing?