coat dosi: Continuing Education

Continuing?Education

Her lips twisted to the left in disapproval.

?It?s good, but it has that iodine aftertaste,? she said.

I?m pretty certain that my internal sigh was matched by a slight droop of my shoulders. This has been a common complaint from my girlfriend about beers I?ve made and have been trying to correct for a couple years now. It?s not always there and she seems to detect it more often than I do but I have gotten this flavor off and on. My belief was that the sanitizer I was using, iodophor, was causing this after taste; the flavor was uncommonly similar to the smell of iodine. I checked the amount I was using and according to the directions, I was using the right amount, which is good but this slightly metallic note has continued to occasionally appear, to my dismay.

I just kept forgetting to ask people about it. Thankfully, the OBC has a forum section now and I could just ask the question and come back to reference it later! I got some really good advice, including a link to an article written by a San Francisco homebrewer, which has me tweaking how I use my sanitizer.

Plus, I had enough people saying I should use StarSan instead of Iodophor, so I probably will switch when I?ve used all this up?assuming I can get a handle on the problem. I certainly hope so, because I don?t want to get rid of $32 worth of sanitizer. My money > less of my money, you know?