Homebrew Blues

Oh past me... why are you such an asshole?

Story time

I had two beers in kegs - an aggressively hopped IPA - https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1545887/big-dippa-smash/514128 - and a blonde in kegs. The plan was to drink the IPA first, since hop aroma is volitile and drinking IPAs fresh is "best practice"... but then I had my parents come for a visit, and my dad kept saying he wanted to try the beer I've made

So I did the thing I know I shouldn't have done.. I swapped kegs and put the blonde in the kegerator and took out the IPA.

With my parents being in town for a bit, and then others wanting to try my beer and they also weren't IPA fans, the IPA keg sat outside of the fridge for far longer than it should have. And when I killed the keg of the blonde, I put the IPA back in the fridge

It went from pouring a nice golden organe to looking and smelling like wet cardboard. Even though I kept the keg pressurized and O2 out, it did not last.

So I realized I needed to dump a 3/4 full keg of skunked IPA and clean the keg.

Did I do this in a timely manner? Nope.

I didn't want to deal with dumping out all this undrinkable beer and the cleaning that would come afterwards.. which involves spraying it out with hot water, filling it and mixing in PBW. So hard...

So now that I want to brew something new, I have these extra old kegs sitting around that will need more attention.

Past me is a jerk.