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I used this for the first time this weekend. I live in Vegas and have to ship in my ingredients and have had bad luck shipping liquid yeast, so I am trying to convert recipes to dry styles.
I brewed Ed's Haus PA and the krauzen is a strange blue/grey color. (Strange, but pretty all the same )
Just wanted to share. Has anyone else seen strange high krauzen colors with dry yeast?


P.S. Before the RDWHAHB responses come, I am not worried. I like the color

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I've used Nottingham many times and I haven't experienced krausen the color that you are describing. Maybe snap a pic of it so we can take a look?

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+1...never had blue krausen with Notty for Ed's Haus or any other recipe. Did you leave some kind of cleaner/sanitzer in the fermenter?

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Your post re-affirms my dedication to an Ale Pail and white lid. As long as the bubbler is going...I'm golden. I am glad that I can't see in...cause I'm pretty excitable.

Glad you like the colors though.

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did you use hop pellets? perhaps some got put in the fermenter? that could possibly cause a greenish/blueish krausen.

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I've seem some very dark krausen from Notty. What you are describing doesn't seem abnormal at all.

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Blue stuff on top of the beer? Maybe you've created Smurfing Beer!

EdWort

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+1 I've never seen my kreuzen, but blue is my favorite color. Cool!

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Did you by chance toss in yeast nutrients? I put a little too much into a batch once and the yeast had a greyish color, it had no effect on flavor at all.

Mine was on a liquid culture, but I imagine the same could be true for dry.

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No yeast nutrient
No left-over chemicals
No difference over any other batch other than two things:

Used hard alcohol instead of water in airlock (cachasa--a brazilian vodka-like liquor made from sugar cane; clear and flavorless like vodka)
Used dry Nottingham yeast

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"No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer."
"Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop."
-Winston Churchill----brilliant man