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Date: 25 Jun 2006 22:27:14
From: Gerard Eberlein
Subject: medicinal taste
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I don't use bleach for any part of brewing and I use bottled spring water
and have had a couple good brews with it. This last IPA I taste a bandaid
type taste in the backround. I use iodophor at 1 TBSP per 5 gallons to
sanitize. Any help on what might be causing this off flavour? Thanx in
advance.
Gerard
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Date: 25 Jun 2006 21:21:20
From: (East Bay) Phil
Subject: Re: medicinal taste
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You're tasting phenolic esters. Some yeasts produce this. Sounds like
you need to clean more aggressively.
P
Gerard Eberlein wrote:
> I don't use bleach for any part of brewing and I use bottled spring water
> and have had a couple good brews with it. This last IPA I taste a bandaid
> type taste in the backround. I use iodophor at 1 TBSP per 5 gallons to
> sanitize. Any help on what might be causing this off flavour? Thanx in
> advance.
>
> Gerard
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>
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Date: 26 Jun 2006 06:36:05
From:
Subject: Re: medicinal taste
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Scotty B wrote:
> smhone...@aol.com wrote:
> > Gerard Eberlein wrote:
> > > I don't use bleach for any part of brewing and I use bottled spring water
> > > and have had a couple good brews with it. This last IPA I taste a bandaid
> > > type taste in the backround. I use iodophor at 1 TBSP per 5 gallons to
> > > sanitize. Any help on what might be causing this off flavour? Thanx in
> > > advance.
> > >
> > > Gerard
>
> I may be full of it, but I remember learning in one of my college
> chemistry courses (how's that for alliteration?) that standards are
> actually less strict on bottled waters than on regular tap water.
>
> Scotty B
No, your not full of it actually I've heard that as well!
Sometimes when I'm on this subject I get a mental image of some 300lb
burger pilot jogging in a large metal tub literaly sweatin his ass off.
Of course it makes you wonder what do they do with all that "special
sauce" that drips off of his sesame seeded buns? Well, I'll just let
you guys ponder on that. Oh, where's my bottled water?
Steve
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Date: 26 Jun 2006 12:51:46
From: Gerard Eberlein
Subject: Re: medicinal taste
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Upon tasting another of the same batch today I'm thinking I may have
mistasted. I did alot of cascade and columbus hops for flavour and aroma. I
think what I'm tasting might be the citrusy/grapefruity flavour. I really
have to quit cigarettes. I know they're messing with my taste buds. As far
as the bottled water I use goes, my girlfriend doesn't smoke and she has
tasted this spring water at room temperature and says it has no chlorine
smells and tastes nice.I'm starting to think it's just me.
Gerard
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Date: 26 Jun 2006 05:50:19
From: Scotty B
Subject: Re: medicinal taste
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smhone...@aol.com wrote:
> Gerard Eberlein wrote:
> > I don't use bleach for any part of brewing and I use bottled spring water
> > and have had a couple good brews with it. This last IPA I taste a bandaid
> > type taste in the backround. I use iodophor at 1 TBSP per 5 gallons to
> > sanitize. Any help on what might be causing this off flavour? Thanx in
> > advance.
> >
> > Gerard
>
>
> You may be picking it up from your particular source of water.
> Believe it or not some of these "spring water" people do nothing more
> than bottle it from their own tap and then noone knows the difference.
> Try changing your water source one or two times just to see if that has
> any effect.Being that these flavors that you describe are typicaly a
> byproduct of chlorine in one way or another and from what you say that
> may be the only variable.
>
> Steve
I may be full of it, but I remember learning in one of my college
chemistry courses (how's that for alliteration?) that standards are
actually less strict on bottled waters than on regular tap water.
Scotty B
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Date: 26 Jun 2006 03:50:00
From:
Subject: Re: medicinal taste
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Gerard Eberlein wrote:
> I don't use bleach for any part of brewing and I use bottled spring water
> and have had a couple good brews with it. This last IPA I taste a bandaid
> type taste in the backround. I use iodophor at 1 TBSP per 5 gallons to
> sanitize. Any help on what might be causing this off flavour? Thanx in
> advance.
>
> Gerard
You may be picking it up from your particular source of water.
Believe it or not some of these "spring water" people do nothing more
than bottle it from their own tap and then noone knows the difference.
Try changing your water source one or two times just to see if that has
any effect.Being that these flavors that you describe are typicaly a
byproduct of chlorine in one way or another and from what you say that
may be the only variable.
Steve
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