BILLY BREW
Grandmaster Brewer
Did a collaboration brew with my buds and we let it sit for 6 months. Yesterday we decided to divvy and bottle and I swear, somebody dropped a bottle of nail polish remover in it.
We put the barrel together in October, the tested in December. So there were 2 months there, and it was fine
Questioned the person holding the barrel and through questioning I found out that he and one of the others popped the bung to thief out a sample to check it. They said when they tested it, it tasted great. That makes me think that the contaminant hadn't been introduced to that point.
Now I have done 8 barrel collaborations to date and this is the first time it went south. This was the 2nd in this barrel, Makers Mark. The first being an awesome Wee Heavy.
I told them that nailing for sample was usually the way to test a barrel, if a test is done at all.
To my esteemed colleagues; Is the fact that they opened it up probably the cause of the contamination?
We put the barrel together in October, the tested in December. So there were 2 months there, and it was fine
Questioned the person holding the barrel and through questioning I found out that he and one of the others popped the bung to thief out a sample to check it. They said when they tested it, it tasted great. That makes me think that the contaminant hadn't been introduced to that point.
Now I have done 8 barrel collaborations to date and this is the first time it went south. This was the 2nd in this barrel, Makers Mark. The first being an awesome Wee Heavy.
I told them that nailing for sample was usually the way to test a barrel, if a test is done at all.
To my esteemed colleagues; Is the fact that they opened it up probably the cause of the contamination?