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Hi Guys,

Pretty sure my Weizen is infected. When I racked to the secondary it had a super sour aroma (After two weeks). Now it's been 4 weeks and it has a very sour aroma and taste. The taste is much less strong than the aroma.

My question is how am I going to clean my regulator and lines now that I've used them with the infected batch? Should I also discontinue use of the bucket that it fermented in or is there a safe way to bleach/clean it?

Did you have "blow back" in to the co2 lines?

I clean my gas lines once a year or when I have blow back.

Buckets are cheap but bleach, star san or iodine based cleaner should work.

Your siphon gear needs to be heavily sanitized too.

Sandy

Regulator shouldn't be infected as the liquid won't come in contact with it. For the Air in you can always just soak it in a strong chlorine mix. Then sterilize.
For the lines I'd take almost a slurry of PBW and near boiling water and run it thought the lines and Let it sit for 6 hours, then rinse well and sterilize and let that sit in the lines over night.

For the bucket, look for any scratches, if there are some, I'd throw the bucket. If there are no scratches, give it a strong mix of hotwater and chlorine mix and let it soak til the water cools then rinse well and repeat once more. Then sterilize.

GAM wrote:Did you have "blow back" in to the co2 lines?

When I released pressure after carbonating beer came through the valve. So yeah.

Do you have a one way valve on your regulator?

If you do clean the valve not the regulator. If not google how to clean a regulator. I may have a valve if you don't have one.

Clean your regulator now so the beer doesn't get sticky.

Sandy

i have the reg that comes with this kit: https://www.everwoodavebrewshop.com/pro ... icnic-tap/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The reg has a check valve after it, you're in luck. That meanse no beer should have backed up into your regulator. Be sure to clean your lines and you should be fine.