Ongoing funky yeast flavour...

[Ducatiboy stu]

Warm the tap in hot watet, then place in a vice and push a wooden dowel or rod up the guts and give it a light tap. It will push the inner section out.( ie the bit you grab and turn )

 

[timmi9191]

Cool.. I've got some cleaning to do!!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Taps are notorious for harbouring nasties.

 

[timmi9191]

Gave me an excuse to get 2 of new squarish type fermenters, they fit better in the brew fridge too!!

Will sterilise the others and the taps within an inch of their lives.. They can be the saison fermenters as the weather heats up

 

[timmi9191]

Taps opened and cleaned.. OMG!!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

They where not very clean where they.

 

[timmi9191]

They were like the tray u find years later under the fridge.. Not pretty!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

You would be suprised at how many infection threads over the years have come from taps. Both fermenter and bar.

 

[timmi9191]

Tap breakdown and scrub is now part of the cleaning regime!!

 

[rehabs_for_quitters]

I chuck mine and buy new ones quite regularly as they can get pretty ferral

 

[GeoffN]

Taps....... Hmmmmm

I've had some funny flavours in my last 3 brews and there is some buildup around my fermenter tap. I think I'm going to extend my cleaning regime.

Than you all.

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[recharge]

Rather than start a new thread.
I just had pretty much this same conversation with a farmer friend of mine.
He has just lost 3 kit brew to what he described as a woody taste that kept getting worse and had turned the beer brown.
My initial thoughts were infection though i have never had a woody taste in my beer. My other thought was shitty kit yeast but given it gets progressively worse in the bottle i was leaning toward infection.

He also stated it has never happened until he started fermenting in a new temp controlled freezer(my fault).

Any other thoughts.

Rich

 

[timmi9191]

Clean freezer? Sealed fermenter?

 

[recharge]

New freezer + glad wrap. I have told him to clean his taps and hopefully improved his sanitation knowledge and start with better yeast.
Then saw this thread and ...

Rich

 

[Dan Pratt]

I just tried cleaning my taps again, after previously failing at getting them apart....+1 for hot water then trying to get them apart....now getting a proper cleaning.