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rodneygullick
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Post by rodneygullick »

I am still trying to find out why I a getting off tastes in my beer the day before I brew I put 10 gallons of water with 1 campden in a black polythene dust bin could this be part of my problems if so I have the chance of reasonably sized s/steel beer barrel for free which should hold at least 10 gallons but it would involve a lot of work to cut one end off so at the moment it is a matter of elimination Rodney
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black polyethylene isn't good for storage of water. Could well be it.
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Rodney, unless it's food grade it shouldn't be used. It's not just the off-flavours, but who knows what chemicals you are ingesting and poisoning yourself with.

For your next brew get off to a supermarket and buy some cheap bottled water, often less than £1 for a 5 litre bottle and don't treat it, do nothing. The other thing I would do would be to pitch a packet of decent dried yeast (even the beer yeast from Wilkinsons is actually 'Nottingham'). Do not make a starter and don't re-hydrate, just sprinkle it on.

Is there anything else in the system that's not food grade? Pipes? Boiler etc?
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black bin liners are lowest grade recycled plastic - smell it. All sorts of volatile nasties coming off that, and a large surface area. Stainless will be best for water \ brewing. This may be the issue, but my money is still on either an infection or some residual taint from maybe the christmas beer (clovey).

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I would put money on your barrel tap being an issue. They need removing, stripping down, cleaning & sanitising fairly regularly.
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I would put money on your barrel tap being an issue. They need removing, stripping down, cleaning & sanitising fairly regularly.
FV1: EMPTY
FV2: EMPTY
Conditioning: NOWT
Drinking:Countdown Conundrum - Best Bitter; Haka! The Herald - Pacific IPA
Planning: San Francisco 4.9er - California Common; Event Horizon - Robust Porter; Cold Dead Hand - American IPA
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I think Roger's suggestion of bottled water is a good idea.

Doing this will remove the black plastic concern and you can then see what impact this has had.

I would also clean the tap as Barnaby is suggesting. I would do this as a matter of course to maintain a sanitised enviroment for your beer.

Doing both may cloud what was the actual problem but both seem like good, simple ideas to implement.
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Hi rod

If you want your beer barrel knocking into shape drop it around I will knock a few shades out of it with my grinder

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thanks for the offer but my cousin has the barrel he also has a work shop where he does a lot of wrought iron work he would probably knock the end out for me with a torch I have seen the barrel at a glance but I am not quite sure if it will hold 10 gallons or not I will know more next week when I have a good look at it Rodney
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I have acquired the s/steel barrel problem is it is not big enough for what I wanted it for I wanted it to put 10 gallons 60 liters of water in but it is only a 50 liter one so I will atempt to convert it into a boiler at a later date may be Rodney
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