The Submarine Captain wrote:
> DELONGPREBUM a écrit :
>
> >Added a few ounces of strawberry oil to my fermenting batch earlier
> >today.
> >
> >[...]
> >Could this cause a problem, as in illness or even worse (gasp!) a lousy
> >brew?
> >
> >
> Plastic container you're brewing in ?

YES!

>
> You may be unable to get rid of the flavour for future batches, then.
>
> It happened back in 98 or 99 to british family brewers Batemans, who
> released a strawberry bitter, and then had to have the beer lines of the
> pubs who had served it changed, because the flavour had impregnated the
> plastic and was bleeding back into the beer passing through the line.
> The core of the problem being that strawberry flavour is something so
> pungent that a human palate detects it even at trace level.
>
> Cheers !
>
> Laurent
>
>
Thanks, mon ami. Je suis ne a Montreal.

Actually, I wanted to know if there would be any problem in using 6
YEAR-OLD strawberry oil.

I made some cherry beer years ago and it took about 5 batches before
the aroma was gone. Not that I minded the aroma.

Swiss beer? Tell me more.