I have brewed 2 batches of beer now and they both tasted pretty good but had a little bit of a funky after taste. I used an Ecolab brand manual bar glass sanitizer that I had a lot of from my last job. Would this be the reason I’m getting this aftertaste? Should I stick with starsan or some other type of sanitizer specifically made for home brewing? Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks!
According to the label I found online, it says it provides 100ppm of chlorine when mixed according to instructions. Personally, I do not like using chlorine. Plus, if you don’t mix it exactly, you could end up with way to much chlorine (or not enough).
I don’t have any personal experience with this product, so others may have a better feel for it, and maybe it is just fine. But, I think I have tried about every cleaner and sanitizer that exists, including bleach, and it is really hard to beat PBW for cleaning and Star San for sanitizing in my opinion.
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It’s probably because you only brewed 2 batches. I used one-step my first year of brewing (GASP!). Two things you can do for your beer as far as flavor is:
- Control the fermentation temperature. Keep the beer in the 60’s.
- Pitch the proper amount of yeast.
Do these two things and if your funky after taste still exists, check sanitation and your equipment.
“Funky” as in band-aid? Did you rinse off the chlorine-based sanitizer?
