Just a follow-up for anyone who's still following this thread: I bottled about 2 weeks ago, carefully avoiding getting any of the white pellicle-looking-thing into the bottling bucket when siphoning. Added 16 oz of coffee cold-brewed from 3 oz. of roughly ground espresso beans to the bottling...
Thanks, all. It sounds like it's an infection, but one that may not negatively affect the final product. I'll taste it when I draw a gravity sample before bottling and decide then whether to dump or keep it.
The enormous headspace is due to having only this 6.5 gal carboy available when I...
Brewing a Belgian mocha stout, fermented 2 weeks in the primary. One week ago, I racked it into the secondary onto 4 oz. of cacao nibs packaged by Northern Brewer. Sanitized my secondary fermenter and siphoning/racking equipment as usual. I assumed that the cacao nibs, packaged in the...
I neglected to mention that it was a 5 gal batch in a 6 gal carboy, so there was plenty of headspace for the kraeusen. Nothing went up the blowoff tube, I had no mess at all.
And the kraeusen did eventually fall, around a week ago. It's been in the primary for 2 weeks now, and I'm bottling...
I brewed NB's The Innkeeper with Wyeast 1469 last Tuesday. 5 gal batch, all-grain mash at 153F, 1 qt starter. Fermentation took off like a shot, and itquickly developed a thick, rocky kraeusen on top. I started it a 72-74F for 24 hours, then moved it to the basement at 67F.
Almost a week...