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I've run a dozen or more batches of wine, Dragon's Blood and SkeeterPee through my 60L Speidel, but this batch of strawberry is 'different' smelling. It smells like plastic and I wonder if I ruined the batch or the vessel.
Searched/read a couple threads on plastic smells and nothing seemed related to potential heat, but many on just a plastic smell.... Vessel was clean smelling and cleaned with StarSan prior to addition of ingredients.
Basically a DB variation using frozen strawberries, I mixed up my 10lbs of sugar via simple syrup. I let it cool only a little bit before dumping it in the fermenter. This time, the simple syrup went in first whereas before I've typically had a gallon or so of water already in there. I'm guessing the simple syrup was way too hot for the vessel? Speidel shows 140*F and if I were a betting man, this was up around the 175*F mark.
The weird part is, I don't recall the plastic smell after the addition of the ingredients, nor prior to yeast pitch - just smelled like strawberry jam. Only after active PF had begun 24 hours post-pitch did I notice the smell. (Yeast - EC-1118)
Is the heated simple syrup a good guess where this smell is coming from?
Do you think this smell will transfer to the product?
Have I ruined my vessel?
Other thoughts?
It's a batch a friend is making for her mom and I'm making her do all the steps herself. Ugh. Hope I've not screwed THIS one up.
Thanks in advance...
~m
Searched/read a couple threads on plastic smells and nothing seemed related to potential heat, but many on just a plastic smell.... Vessel was clean smelling and cleaned with StarSan prior to addition of ingredients.
Basically a DB variation using frozen strawberries, I mixed up my 10lbs of sugar via simple syrup. I let it cool only a little bit before dumping it in the fermenter. This time, the simple syrup went in first whereas before I've typically had a gallon or so of water already in there. I'm guessing the simple syrup was way too hot for the vessel? Speidel shows 140*F and if I were a betting man, this was up around the 175*F mark.
The weird part is, I don't recall the plastic smell after the addition of the ingredients, nor prior to yeast pitch - just smelled like strawberry jam. Only after active PF had begun 24 hours post-pitch did I notice the smell. (Yeast - EC-1118)
Is the heated simple syrup a good guess where this smell is coming from?
Do you think this smell will transfer to the product?
Have I ruined my vessel?
Other thoughts?
It's a batch a friend is making for her mom and I'm making her do all the steps herself. Ugh. Hope I've not screwed THIS one up.
Thanks in advance...
~m