Beer tastes like a rubber bung!

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:40 pm

Strange one for you boys. Had a bit of trouble with a bung on my secondary fermenter a few weeks ago. Basically my mate accidentally pushed it really far down the neck of a Better Bottle and I had to get it out by screwing two screws into it and tugging it out. A few tiny bits of rubber fell on top of the beer. A few weeks later (yesterday) I bottled it and it actually tastes like rubber. It's in the aroma too. My missus can't taste it and thinks I'm imagining it but I can taste rubber!

The beer is my honey and elderflower brew. Could it be the honey? the elderflower? Have never had it before and made this around 4 -5 times now...

Any ideas?

Morten · Post by **Morten** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:15 am

Rubber aroma/taste is usually related to autolysis, but if you only left it for a few weeks it shouldn't be a problem.

Was it a 1st generation yeast or did you re-pitch on slurry?

trucker5774 · Post by **trucker5774** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:31 am

I had this in a couple of brews a few year ago. The only thing I could put it down to was high fermentation temperature.

subfaction · Post by **subfaction** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:13 am

I had a rubbery taste on a porter kit, after a couple of months it was gone and the brew tasted loverly. It might just need to condition out.

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:04 pm

Cheers folks. Reckon it could be autolysis. Did drive it 12 miles in a secondary fermenter from my mates - post fermentation...

Lesson learnt!

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:32 pm

OK. This has happened again. I racked my delicious Victorian Ruby Mild (6%) to a 23L PET carboy and 2L to a plastic bottle. I bunged the rubber stopper on my carboy and 2 weeks later the beer tastes like f*cking rubber. The stuff in the bottle is perfect! This rubber stopper I'm using came along with the carboy. It's this type and it smells very 'rubbery'. I even boiled it before using it this time!

Here is the carboy I'm using:

I doubt it's a sanitation issue. I swirled 70c water around the carboy then blitzed it with Starsan. It's not the syphon tube as this is what I used to fill the 2L bottle on the same day.

F*ck sake. Had to tip the last one. Fed up with tipping beer. FAR too much this year already.

Spud395 · Post by **Spud395** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:20 am

Jeez, your having no luck lately Floyd

EliteEvil · Post by **EliteEvil** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:23 am

Get a cork bung?

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:53 pm

OK. So, I tipped my honey and elderflower ale out because this flavour was too strong and disgusting. All but one that is. Just poured it and... it's amazing! Doh! Could cry. Gutted

Good news is that I didn't ditch my Victorian Ruby Mild. The flavour has vanished from there too and it's superb. Ah well. At least I get to have one of my honey and elderflower ales to enjoy. MUST BREW MORE!

EoinMag · Post by **EoinMag** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:21 pm

If it's not the bung it could be an infection, keep that in mind when trying to eliminate the cause.

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