Tried my Tom Caxton Ale Last weekend has been conditioning in 2 litre plastic lemonade bottles for 3 weeks, when I tried it after 2 weeks it tasted fine but had a bitter aftertaste, put this down to adding half the supplied sachet. however one week later and now it tastes seriously salty ( mind you I still drunk a few pints... make that 6, and woke up sunday morning feeling like i'd spent the night licking Ghandi's flip flops..)
I brewed using tap water, the supplied yeast, half the flavour enhancing sachet, and a bag of 1kg Tesco's sugar
has something gone wrong or should it be like this ?
Thanks in advance
Salty tasting Tom Caxton
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DrZiggy
Lived in the same area of london for a few years now and the water tastes normal to me its no Evian but drinkable, couldn't find any thing on the tesco's website, and the missus dosent mind the brewing ( makes her happy, as it's the only time I clean the kitchen..)your tap water (does it taste OK?), the Tesco sugar (are there any recalls on Tescos website for the own sugar?) or some one has been messing about with your beer (got mischevious kids or a house mate, does the missus complain about your brewing, have you had mates round to have a few who may do something like this?)
To be honest no just used it strainght form the tap, is this something I should be doing this is only the second kit I have done first one was a lager and that turned out fine.Do you use a water softener?
And I'm sorry too. I mean, I'm sorry that I spat tea all over the place, nearly choked to death and am still giggling like an idiot now at the Header (Aaah, shit! More tea!) " Salty Tasting Tom Caxton ". I mean, I was going to ask ye what ye expected! LMFAO!
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DrZiggy
Could have been worse original header was "Tom taste salty", would have led down a different path and had the missus worried.....And I'm sorry too. I mean, I'm sorry that I spat tea all over the place, nearly choked to death and am still giggling like an idiot now at the Header (Aaah, shit! More tea!) " Salty Tasting Tom Caxton ". I mean, I was going to ask ye what ye expected!
took a leap of faith and tried another bottle tonight while watching the boxing, ( go on Ricky) this taste fine if a little bitter as previously stated, wondering if it could be something residual in the bottle, use VWP sterilizer to clean them, if any one has any Ideas please let me know.
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Ok. I've got over the giggles now. So much so that I'm not even going to expand on the further funny that I now find in all this.DrZiggy wrote: wondering if it could be something residual in the bottle, use VWP sterilizer to clean them, if any one has any Ideas please let me know.
No. Dead straight faced, I shall now simply state that, yeppers; I strongly suspect it's a residual taint of that VWP (Chlorine based) cleaner, left in ye bottle, that caused that twang.
Did ye up end the treated bottles to Really dry out, as ye got on with ye life - or did ye just sloosh them around with VWP and then 'empty' them into the sink and give them a little shake?
One thing I learned, from my wifes wine making, was that draining bottles is a right royal pain. But no 'Drainer' is quite as much a pain as trying to balance umpteen bottles around the kitchen - or drinking 'funny' results from not doing it properly
