Recent content by jrn442

As far as I understand it I think you are okay. Different yeast strains, amount of sugars for the yeast to feed on will obviously result in different days in fermenting, but i have made a good pale ale with just three days in first fermentation. So as long as it tastes fine when you are done...

I would say it likely oxygenated hop oils. It looks like hop leaves floating at the top surrounded with coagulated hop oil, and not a matter of yeast at all. I dry hopped my first batch last week and it looked like this. Supposedly you need to sink the hops in a cheesecloth bag so they don't get...