Taste of steriliser

[Thirsty Paul]

Hi all,
I’ve just moved over to cornies and overall I’m very happy with my new set up, no real problems at all. However at the some time as kegging my first beers in my cornies I started using Star san as a no rinse steriliser and my first 2 cornies worth of beer both taste of steriliser (the first worst than the second). I’ve never had this problem before using beer-spheres hooked up via a homemade system to a dalex tap and Chempro as a steriliser, so I’m guessing that either I’ve done something wrong with the Star san or I’ve got another problem with my cornies that I haven’t picked up on. Any ideas or pointers would be welcome as I don’t want to mess up any more beer, in the mean time I’m going back to Chempro.

PS I bottled a couple of bottles of the same beers when I kegged into my cornies and these are fine so the problems got to be either kegging or post kegging.

[Andy]

Odd, starsan has a very mild/neutral taste (weak lemonade springs to mind). Sure your Starsan dilutions were correct ?

[Andy]

Of course - the cornies!

Always blitz the norm cornies with oxyclean (or soda crystals) when you first get them and as Chris mentions check/replace the o-rings. All mine stank of syrup and the o-rings had to go.