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[SchwanzBrewer]

I took my hefe and porter to my comp team meeting last night. I was fairly sure the hefe was going to knock it out of the park. Aroma is off. There's some unwanted phenols in there. Pouring a pint from the keg it's perfect. The cloves and bananas are balanced, the most balanced I've ever been able to get them. I think my beer gun may be contaminated. I bottled the porter, kolsch, and hefe all on the same night. You couldn't tell in the porter. I'm gonna take a bottle of each of the beers out of the fridge and let them warm up. If there's contamination I'll be able to tell.

 

The flavor was perfect on the hefe though. So it could just beginning to manifest itself.

 

I have to bottle some more on Saturday for war of the worts. So I'm gonna have to do a super deep cleaning of the beer gun and make sure everything is perfect. I'm also pulling my entries from one of the comps. I haven't paid for them yet at least. 

 

Three freaking cases of beer contaminated. Sucks.

[BlKtRe]

Clean everything well as you know. Could be the bottle too. Might not be in all the bottles either. 

 

I switch out my BG tubing every few years. I always clean the tubing well using a keg of cleaner then starsan. Store dry. No issues with contamination from the BG ever. 

[SchwanzBrewer]

Clean everything well as you know. Could be the bottle too. Might not be in all the bottles either. 

 

I switch out my BG tubing every few years. I always clean the tubing well using a keg of cleaner then starsan. Store dry. No issues with contamination from the BG ever. 

 

Neither have I and I'm anal about cleaning. I used new tubing too, but I'm also using sanke kegs and the D-coupler was new, but wasn't cleaned, it was just sanitized. I should have known better. Everything is getting soaked in BLC and then rinsed with hot water and soaked in starsan. The beer gun is coming completely apart and is getting a good run down.

 

Sucks.

[BlKtRe]

Could of been some oils or something on that coupler. Maybe. Dont write off all the bottles yet. Could be a cleaning issue in certain bottles. 

[SchwanzBrewer]

Could of been some oils or something on that coupler. Maybe. Dont write off all the bottles yet. Could be a cleaning issue in certain bottles. 

 

Both of the hefe bottles had the same aroma. I'll check some others. I only intended on entering the hefe in one comp since it's getting old. It doesn't bode well for the kolsch though.