advice from fellow brewers.

[Pete Franklin]

My most recent brew has gone wrong. Brewing all grain- I was trying out a new recipe of mine. A heavily hopped medium coloured but medium sweet ale (heavy on cara malt low on crystal) the beer was finished with crushed black pepper and then dry hopped in the secondary. After two weeks ferment (primary and secondary) the beer has a strong medicinal flavour. Like elastoplasts.

I have experienced this problem before and after reading up it is most likely to be chlorine contamination from left over sanitizing fluid. However after the last experience I'm really careful to rinse my equipment with boiling water so I'm not quite sure why it happened again?

Now I have 5 gal of ale that doesn't taste too good. It's had a lot of time and effort put into it so I don't really want to pour it away. Can anyone suggest a way to save it or improve it. long shot I know.

[Dirty Frank]

Have you tried cleaning with sodium met o bio sulphate or what ever it is!! thats now classed as a food stuff. So it doesnt need to be rinsed off as well as other things and doesnt effect the brew.