Hi,
Brand new to the forums and brand new to brewing beer. First I bought the Brewers Best Beast kit and was told that's all I needed to get started. I decided to do a hefe kit because I figured it would be hard to screw up. Sanitized everything, brewed the beer and placed it in the carboy,'bung and airlock. This was 5 gallons of beer in a 5 gallon carboy.
Here's the reason for the title thread and my question. So after the first 24 hours I'm guessing it was yeast blew out of the top of the airlock and had lava'd down the side of the carboy. I figured it was fine, cleaned up the carboy, took out the bung and airlock quickly and sanitized them off, and placed them back into the carboy. Didnt have the same issue again but noticed a collection at the top of the carboy, and it seemed to be hardening instead of foamy like I see in a lot of other fermentation pictures.
Well I went to bottle today after a week and noticed a huge stench coming from the room my carboy was in. I went to remove the airlock first and almost threw up from the smell. When I looked in the bung there about 5, 2-3cm worms crawling around in the bung (2 of which fell into the beer). I immediately tossed the beer out and sanitized the heck out of literally everything. I'm a clean person with a clean home, and tried to sanitized literally everything.
My question is, how in the heck did that happen?
I really want to brew a batch but am completely lost as to why it happened and I'm afraid of blowing another $30-40 on a month of tossing out beer.
I've checked around to find a similar issue and it seems like I might be the first to create something so nasty.
Hopefully someone has the best answer
Brand new to the forums and brand new to brewing beer. First I bought the Brewers Best Beast kit and was told that's all I needed to get started. I decided to do a hefe kit because I figured it would be hard to screw up. Sanitized everything, brewed the beer and placed it in the carboy,'bung and airlock. This was 5 gallons of beer in a 5 gallon carboy.
Here's the reason for the title thread and my question. So after the first 24 hours I'm guessing it was yeast blew out of the top of the airlock and had lava'd down the side of the carboy. I figured it was fine, cleaned up the carboy, took out the bung and airlock quickly and sanitized them off, and placed them back into the carboy. Didnt have the same issue again but noticed a collection at the top of the carboy, and it seemed to be hardening instead of foamy like I see in a lot of other fermentation pictures.
Well I went to bottle today after a week and noticed a huge stench coming from the room my carboy was in. I went to remove the airlock first and almost threw up from the smell. When I looked in the bung there about 5, 2-3cm worms crawling around in the bung (2 of which fell into the beer). I immediately tossed the beer out and sanitized the heck out of literally everything. I'm a clean person with a clean home, and tried to sanitized literally everything.
My question is, how in the heck did that happen?
I really want to brew a batch but am completely lost as to why it happened and I'm afraid of blowing another $30-40 on a month of tossing out beer.
I've checked around to find a similar issue and it seems like I might be the first to create something so nasty.
Hopefully someone has the best answer