Looks like I've lost the Coopers Stout. My first effort in decades. I just looked at it and it's flat as a pan cake, in the fermentation bucket.I cracked the tap to get a taste? Absolutely f*cking vile!!! Could this be the " TCP " taste everyone relates to? What ever it is, I can see the lot going down the sink before this night's out. Can't really imagine anything tasting like that being rendered anything I'd want in my mouth again.
So; Where am I likely to have gone so wrong, do ye think? It's got to be sanitisation or water, I suppose. I cleaned the brand new gear with soda crystal solution and then rinsed out with Sod Met.
Water was all put through a Brita filter and went in, sans Camden, over the course of some hours.
I did all that 30th July. I'll be slinging the lot out, 4th August. It's disgusting. I'm drinking Guinness now, trying to get that tang out of my mouth. It's not working! Do ye think I might die now? Have I killed myself tasting that shit? That's a b*stard, if so. Because I'm not in the least bit fazed by this glitch and am looking foreward immensley to trying with the Wherry, and then the Dockland Porter which is on it's way to me right now
Anyway; Where did it all go wrong? Likeliest answer ....?
Just swallowed! Yeppers; That after burn was Definately suggestive of TCP! Urgh!
. . . . The reason some filters use silver (Not silver chloride) is that the silver prevents bacteria buildup in the body of the filter, which if you are making a kit could be important. Most filters consist of a pre filter to remove solid matter, and a carbon block, which adsorbs certain contaminants (chloramine, pesticides, some heavy metals etc), and can be had very cheaply. If all you are brewing with is tap water though, the use of a campden tablet per 10 gallons of water is simple and effective.
Appreciate the come back and the encouragement, Aleman. But the state that one swallow left my stomach in tells me that ones sinkward bound. I've turned perfectly good malt extract and hops into something that'd probably kill a blow fly.
. I think Max may be onto something in that poorly rinsed Chlorinated sanitiser could be the source . . . . I tend to use mine to clean the vessel after use, and then rinse well and, put it away clean and dry . . . come brew day I sanitise with either peracetic or an iodophor using a hand sprayer.