amandabab

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cold break usually settles out fast, before you would ever transfer and with the beer being super clear otherwise,

it looks like your growing a vinegar mother. if it is, it will start floating or sitting in the middle of the carboy.


floating but still a baby.


not a baby.

AndrewD

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tschuess

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First, I want to apologize as I've misled everyone (and myself) by being unorganized. It turns out that what was shown was unfermented wort. I know it seems completely ridiculous that one could make that mistake. However, I currently have 3 beers in progress. I mixed up one of the beers that I racked to a secondary the other day (the dubbel) with the one shown in my pictures (Oktoberfest-style ale). They surprisingly looked the same except for that break material at the bottom of one.

So sorry again. I blame beer.

However, this was the first batch I've made using Whirlfloc which now explains why you can see a bunch of hot break proteins that coagulated this way after cooling it quickly overnight (cold floor). The amount of material is surprising though, as I strain my wort before going into the fermenter.

I pitched the yeast two nights ago and have had crazy fermentation and krausen. If I had used an airlock instead of a blow-off tube, it might have become a Better Bottle bomb! So we'll see if the same happens with the next batch using Whirlfloc...

NochEineMassBitte

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Oh, well in that case, it's not break material at all, and there is, in fact, an intestine in your beer.

tschuess

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You caught me. I give up! I'm a big proponent of (almost) all things offal and crossed the line with brewing. I thought it'd add a nice oaky afterbirth to the finish...

Revvy

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Meh, that's nothing new....once you've had someone brew porkfelwein, you've seen it all.

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yeah, never seen anything like that. Subscribed.

neosapien

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that's just....no. no. I heart me some bacon, but that looks unholy.

tschuess

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Now I know I've never tried it, but that seems like a big waste of such a wonderful thing. I think Porchetta is a more worthy use. <drools>

Revvy

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Porkfelwein even has it's own myspace page.

Of course you can see how old it is....since it's on myspace.

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