Jim's Beer Kit

Thanks guys for all your help. This is solved. I was wrongly reliant on StarSan. I now have a much more rigorous sterilisation/sanitisation process. I am just enjoying the very last of 40 pints of IPA from one of my King Kegs. Zero phenols, very slight yeast content with only this very last pint bei...

Firstly thanks to everyone who has contributed such good replies to this thread. Knowing as I do that wild yeasts bring phenols I looked again at my cleanliness. In particular I looked at my keg taps. The reasoning was if the tap harboured an infection, then it would not manifest in new beer that ha...

Replies on Phenolic taste at the end of a keg. Reply to Guy, Thanks Guy replies embedded in your questions below. From your post it seems as though this happens every time, every brew. Yes? So, a few initial questions if I may. How long is your beer in the King keg or Corny before you finish it? APP...

First a few lines on my process to zero in. I've been brewing from grain successfully for years, favouring SO4 yeat because of it's flocculent properties. I use modified King Kegs and Cornelius Kegs for storage. At the end of secondary fermentation I crash cool and double fine using auxiliary fining...