A beer engine is a beer pump, I steralised using VWP.I transferred the brew by turning on the tap at the bottom of my fermenting vessel, I carbed after purging the keg and put it up to about 25 psi for a week and the brew was a Geordie bitter the yeast came with it....be gentle I'm new to corny kegging. Thanks for your reply.
I thought that would be the reason somehow, damn I've just put another brew on using the same stuff. Thanks again for your reply, do you think the brew is safe to drink. ?
I used the beer engine with the corny and just used the tap on the plastic barrel. I've used the beer engine on a king keg before that was fine I used to gas that up too,that was fine. I transferred a stout from a king keg to the other corny keg and drew that via the beer engine and that was fine too....strange.
VWP is a Cleaner Steraliser, I use it regularly on cornies but its not great on stainless so you need to rinse it off thoroughly. After rinsing I then rinse with starsan, purge it out, pressurise and leave until filling with beer.
Could be from your keg, is this the first time you have used it? There are a lot of cheap kegs on the market, a lot haven't gone through the passivation process leaving bare mild steel spots around the weld area.
Hi, yes this is the first time I've used the keg, it must be a few years old it's got west Germany on it. Will this taste go away the more it is used. ?
Thanks, I'll get some of that and star San and try them.
You will have to passivate the keg, that is what your problem is. The kegs have to be passivated periodically. You will need to give it an acid wash and the air will passivate it.
I've ordered star san, and by the looks I can passivate with a higher concentration of this, so I'll give it a go when it turns up. Cheers.
Remember DON'T RINSE,the air will passivate the keg as it drys out from the StarSan
I`ve ordered it from the malt miller. 8 0z for £17 ish.
