jtakacs

Recipes 

straight up powdery pellicle sitting atop my belgian pale ale. i literally cracked it open to bottle after 4 weeks in primary and i have NO IDEA what happened.

smells like nail polish remover (acetate), wouldn't dream of tasting it and i am PISSED OFF!!! i've had infected beers before but i always knew what caused it - i'm just stunned on this one - this batch went perfect, i mean really, acetate?!?!?!?. as an aside, i think i'm going back to iodophor - i've never had any problem with it and star san just doesn't do it for me. ARG!!!

sucking down an imperial belgian wit to calm my nerves, but it took every ounce of energy to not throw the whole bucket into the f***ing street... i capped it, and let it sit - not sure why, it's trash.

the only thing i can think of that was different was i ran out of lids and used a lid that doesn't have an airtight seal, but fermentation started like a rocket and i checked gravity a week ago (with sterile equipment) and it was just fine - the other thing was we had a heat wave and the beer got warm for sure, but it was all post fermentation - it had hit final gravity well before the heat.

and everything else is fine... ack!

sorry, had to rant... not happy... i was stoked about this beer because i did continuous saaz hop additions every 60 seconds for the last 15 minutes...

jtakacs

Recipes 

i knew the heat was going to be a problem... damned heat wave. there's about three weeks out of the year i can't brew here, and that week was one of them... damn.

bgrayson726

Recipes 

pictures?

lumpher

Recipes 

i can see the pissed... hop additions for the last 15 minutes done every minute...

__________________
Taps:
1: Belma Blonde
2: Toasted Pale Ale
3: Belma Pale Ale

Kegged:
Fermenting: Belgian Saison, Berry wine

In the fermentation chamber:

Fermenting: Toasted IPA

COLObrewer

Recipes 

Get a keg, dedicate it to lambic brewing, throw it in there, add some lambic dregs, maybe some oak chips, it'll be great in a year or two.

__________________
Newer, better, more streamlined sig as per the forum police.

MachineShopBrewing

Recipes 

This wouldn't have anything to do with the beer being infected.

dwarven_stout

Recipes 

Taste it.

__________________
"I can't believe how many people think Air Lock is pronounced Hydrometer." -BigKahuna
"If you gave me a beer with placenta in it without telling me I would kick you in the nuts." -ODaniel
"We be in a big hurry for dope beer with much alcamahol and flavor, quality, balance, and aroma don't matter. We just wantz to be druck, u know?" -Yooper

ReverseApacheMaster

Recipes 

I wouldn't assume it's bad just by smell alone. You have to taste.

jtakacs

Recipes 

i'm afraid to taste it... lol... i will, it's still sitting there.



it's mixed up a bit now so it looks like it's just yeast rafts, etc. - it was dry and powdery and reeks of acetone. no way i can intentionally sour this, the BUs are too high and if it went sour, it would taste horrible... i'm gonna RDWAHAHB, but in the meantime i'm just disappointed that something got in there.

jtakacs

Recipes 

went through my notes, and nothing strange happened...

i'm going to let it sit in primary for another week at least and see what happens - and taste it. if no change, i'll let it sit for another week or two...