I'm confused

Brewing Processes
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[quote]Curious as to what dry yeast you would use on a Tripel…
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Ahem, the thing you’ve got to realise is that this is a Brewer’s Best kit, if you were to run through the discussion I had on the yeast thread, you’d realise (just as I did, and much to my chagrin) that there are  things in those kits that don’t make much sense.

That being said, the yeast was called Nottingham yeast. I ended up throwing a Wyeast Belgian Wit yeast (recommended by some chart that the local brew store owner used to figure which smack pack to use and the dry Nottingham yeast together into the wort.

Didnt turn out too bad until this crap happened.

Which brings me to the real reason I’m posting.

Spoke to the local brew store owner, (drove an hour to go see this guy), and he said that he had a dude had the same thing, turned out to be the dip tube in the keg had some bacterial issues, he said that after the guy poured 3 glasses, the nasty taste went away, only to return once he let it sit for a few days.

Now, in my defence, I PBW’d the keg, closed it and connected it to the co2, ran some PBW up thru the diptube and into the line, let it sit for a day or two, then flushed it out with starsan and let it sit for an hour or so.

So I’m about to strip a dip tube out of another keg I have once I’ve recleaned and sanitzed it, and swap it out with the one in the keg I have the Tripel in.

But before I do this, I wanted to check in with you  guys to find out if there’s a better way to do this,or anything I should watch out for?

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I would just vent the keg, remove the diptube, clean it really well, then put it back in.  And drink the keg quickly, if it really is a contamination issue it’s only going to get worse over time.

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If you dip tubes are really that bad, you may want to try running a dip tube brush through it also.

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Follow up.

I didnt have the hardware to remove the diptube. So, I cleaned the crap out of another keg, and did a beer transfusion. Happy to say that the original taste returned and all is well in the universe.

Thanx to all for the advice

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Now I’m confused… It only takes a wrench or socket to do the job, an essential tool when kegging. How was the transfusion done? If it was pushed it out through a suspected funky diptube(and in through a suspect diptube), that wouldn’t improve anything. Without being able to get at the diptubes on the new keg, there’s no assurance that one’s good to go. An infected batch is infected(which it isn’t if it tastes fine in the new keg) no matter the vessel it’s in.
Could be you don’t prefer beers with higher carb levels. Some was lost during the transfusion.

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Used a hyper sanitised racking cane and moved it from one keg to the other, while leaving the dispensing hose and valve connected to keep most of the funky crap in the tube.

It’s been almost a week now, and it still tastes fine.

As I’ve pointed out on many occasion, I’m a noob, and I learn best by experience. So up to this point I didn’t have a suitable socket wrench or a keg cleaning kit. I now realise the benefit to these, and will aquire both. Suffice it to say, I’m happy because my ‘heart’ transplant appears to have been a success.

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Curious: is your kegging equipment new or used?  Did you sanitize the kegs themselves before you kegged those first three batches?