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  1. itry

    Anybody re-purposed a beer line chiller as a fermenter glycol chiller?

    Yes i have. Im working on building it in to craftbrewpi3 at the moment. Aswell as redesigning the fermenter part of my brewery.
  2. itry

    Awful flavour

    You can not polish a turd. You can however roll it in glitter and laqure it.or you can wrap it in tin foil then freeze it. This is called a space docker
  3. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    I dont think it could be the shed. But their is always more cleaning that can be done. Just so you know I use the word "shed" in reality what I mean is a wooden framed and wooden clad structure. Internally is dry lined and clad with white rock. The floor is resin. The worktop is marble. Every...
  4. itry

    Awful flavour

    https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/ruining-my-beer-plaster-taste.95435/page-3 My page about it
  5. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    But I have opened a dialogue with murphys . I'm going to send them a sample so they can lab it
  6. itry

    Awful flavour

    I know this flavour smell really really well. You can't fix it. Just bin. Oddly my kolsch suffers from it. Every poxy time. Yet a diffrent brew sneaks through and works. Mental. Like I said I'm still trying to understand this .
  7. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    The brew completed. Its bad. Took a sample to the local home brew shop. They didn't know. So were back to cleaning.
  8. itry

    Awful flavour

    This is interesting. It ties into the last thread I did on the subject. Yet to find a cause or a solution.
  9. itry

    County lines drug dealing

    the war on drugs is massive and expensive. imagen what they could do with the money they spent on the fight. then imagen what they could do with the profits if they legalised it all? you would be creating a safe farm able product for the fair trade farmers and put money into poverty country's(...
  10. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    I brewed a kolsch last night so were now playing the waiting game. on a positive note no off kind of smells. ive also left a bit of the wort ( from the sg) on the side to leave it a few days and see what happens. but today no smell. I cleaned all of my equipment with water from the house. I...
  11. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    I have just got home and been out to the brewery. I've poured my self a pint of the pipe water. Yuck. It's horribal. Like my wife , I couldn't swallow it! It tasted tres orribal. Very plasticey and like water that had been sat in a garden hose for 24 hours. Ok next step. Tomorrow do a brew and...
  12. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    it was not detectable in the initial brew. to prove this now i have left water in the hose and will for a few days then i will taste it. then leave on the side in a pot to see if i can smell it. Also doing test tastes. ill do these before and during the stand. 100% correct. however ive tasted...
  13. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    @The-Engineer-That-Brews you can over dose by around 5x the required amount and be fine still.
  14. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    This will get boaring as im trying to be detailed. So i addressed this this weekend. I took on board all of what you said. and followed none of it! before trying with purchased water(because this for me is not acceptable or sustainable) i decided the day before i would fill my pots and boil...
  15. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    @Sadfield @mrhardware i will brew this weekend using dried yeast pitching it direct and bottled water.
  16. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    no this has been a problem for a while now. i literally fill a kettle with boiling water with sodium percarbonate and pass it through and stop it. so that it stays in the cfc and fizzes boils the insides out.
  17. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    @mrhardware i am going to try this
  18. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    This all makes sence. our water supply is very chlorineish . i will do another brew using the campden tablets. and re clean every thing. im sure that this has been done. ill have another go. may mix the campden tabs in the night before and let them settle over night.
  19. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    Hi! i treat my water with a campden tablet before the brew. so you think the water from the tap i rinse every thing with could be causing this? i have a copper lined cfc( if you look back through my posts you will see what i made) i dont scrub it at all as its all internal. i blast it with...
  20. itry

    Ruining my beer - plaster taste

    Good day to you. can i have some forum help please. I keep killing my beer . I seem to be getting a Plaster ( that you stick on a cut) medicinal smell and taste. ive manage to ruin a dark brown ale. Kolsch ( this one alot more than the rest) and a creamsoda ale experiment. its really...
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