Brewday put off because liquor smelled nasty
Brewday put off because liquor smelled nasty
Just put off today's brewing until Tuesday because the mash tun smelled of chlorine-y chemicals. Cold water from the kitchen tap is only slightly chlorine-y, but this was foul. I think the "clean" garden hose didn't get flushed through enough before it was used to fill the mash tun. On Tuesday I think I'll fill straight from the tap, as I've lost two brews to TCP this summer, and I definitely treated the liquor with metabisulphite. Maybe vinyl chloride is leaching out of the hose into the water in the sunshine
Re: Brewday put off because liquor smelled nasty
do you filter your water edit?
Re: Brewday put off because liquor smelled nasty
Like with a Brita or similar filter? Not at the moment. I'm in two minds about the spoiled brews because the other chlorine source would have been bleach - I started using bleach to sanitise things, followed by a water rinse and a sulphite rinse to kill the chlorine - and I suspect that some stages of the procedure might have been missed-out. Rather sad, spending this afternoon tipping out over fifty bottles of good-looking, foul-tasting beer. I won't bottle the one I've got in the fermenter without a serious tasting...