TehCrucible
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Not sure where else to post this? Just finished my collar keezer build a few days ago and kegged two beers. I've noticed that the first pour always has a bad smell. Kind of somewhere between rotten eggs and cardboard. Sulfuric. I just automatically assumed the beer was bad, I'd left it on the yeast for a bit longer than usual. But the strange thing is, pour a second beer immediately after and it smells fine?! What's even more weird is that the ginger beer I kegged at the same time is doing the same.
The taps, lines and fittings are brand new. The kegs were second hand but we're cleaned and sanitised before use. Replaced all the o-rings, poppets etc. Gassed a keg with StarSan and run that through all the lines before tapping. I also bought the gas bottle second hand, and it was full. Could that have anything to do with it? Is it the beer sitting in the lines going off between sessions?
Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm pretty new to all this still.
Cheers,
Jamie
The taps, lines and fittings are brand new. The kegs were second hand but we're cleaned and sanitised before use. Replaced all the o-rings, poppets etc. Gassed a keg with StarSan and run that through all the lines before tapping. I also bought the gas bottle second hand, and it was full. Could that have anything to do with it? Is it the beer sitting in the lines going off between sessions?
Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm pretty new to all this still.
Cheers,
Jamie