from theweeklybrew
So I’ve already gone through something like 4 or 5 imperial pints of my Gooseberry and Yarrow Farmhouse Ale (name needs work) in the last two days, and boy is it good. The interesting thing is each one has a soap bubble character when poored from the bottle, yet in the glass looks, and tastes, fine.
I’ve already diagnosed the problem. In fact this is the easiest problem I’ve had to diagnose to date. When I made up my batch of StarSan to sanitize my bottles and equipment I made it up per the directions on the bottle. I have since learned that the directions are a little heavy handed. I should have realized it sooner though when I was fretting over the coating that was left after draining the sanitizer from the bottles. Instead of doing something though I let them dry, sitting down I might add (don’t have a drying rack). The end result was a slight StarSan film was left in the bottom. This is what caused soap like bubbles to appear in the bottle.
Despite this though my beer is great. The head is thick and fluffy, the flavor is almost spot on (could be slightly drier), even the aroma is good. It’s just the soap bubbles in the bottle preventing me from calling it great. Then again I’m at like 80 oz of this stuff, so I can’t very well call it bad.
Anyone else had this issue with StarSan?