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That's an infection. It's Lacto, believe me I've had it and I KNOW what it looks like !!!

Ok, Lets start from the beginning. Your 15 Gal keg is ample for a 5 or 10 gal batch. You have to remember that this is your brew pot. So naturally 12 or 13 gal of beautiful wort will fit nicely in there. If you get up to 13 gal of wort, I'd be vigilant at the hot break to avoid a boil over but...

It's an infection

OK, so I over carbonated an IPA. I Literally had to siphon off co2 for a minute by opening the cap slightly to release the pressure. I was finally able to pour the beer !! So I took several drafts to get a good taste of course, and lo and behold I started belching!! Big, robust one's !! And I...

Bottle it and call it good !!!

Tettnang is a tea right? If it is then what we're seeing could be the oils from the tea? Doesn't look like an infection to me.

I've found that some yeast strains go like gangbusters early on then end pretty quickly like wyeast's 1058, others take their sweet time. I have a Belgian Saison that's been around for 5 weeks. I moved it to a warmer room and it reactivated the yeast. It's bubbling like it's only a week old ...

I think you might be correct !! It got up past 70 deg. and stayed there for a couple days in the bedroom where I do my fermenting. I've had it in the keg for about a week now and the flavor is dissipating a little bit. Thanks for the responses:mug:

I want to start by saying that I really don't think I have an infection. I've been on that thread for several months. I got a lacto infection that lasted about 5 batches before I just, plain got rid of everything and started over again. I use only glass or plastic (better bottle) for all...

I just got rid of my plastic primary and brewed a batch using a glass carboy for my primary. I had replaced all other transfer and fermenting elements.The first post plastic primary batch is in secondary and no sign of infection. That's after 5 or 6 batches with infections after primary. Go to...

So...You're seeing the infection in primary then?

Thanks Thadius that was exactly what I needed !!

OK, so I'm getting that whirlpooling has to do with hopstands and getting the trub to form a small "cone" at the vortex of the whirlpool allowing the wort to be siphoned off leaving the trub behind. Is "the whirlpool" a piece of equipment or is it a process performed with the equipment you...

Yes you definitely have an infection. But if you were to go back on this thread, you would notice one predominate theme. Get it into a bottle to continue conditioning. There's a couple of reasons for this and you can explore that yourself, but you've done that so you're good. The next step...

Yes you definitely have an infection. But if you were to go back on this thread, you would notice one predominate theme. Get it into a bottle to continue conditioning. There's a couple of reasons for this and you can explore that yourself, but you've done that so you're good. The next step is...

I hate to admit this but I had a serious infection problem. I had to throw almost all my fermenting equip. away to get rid of it. That's not an infection. You have a healthy fermentation going there. That looks like a good krausen on top.

Even if it is an infection, it's only been there for a couple weeks. I would rack it to whatever you're going to rack it to and get some co2 on it. It can't have taken that strong a foothold on your beer in two weeks.

It looks so clear underneath. Is it done fermenting? How long in primary? Have you tried it? Seems like that could be yeast. There's no film over the whole top is there? I've had to change out my entire fermenting equipment to get rid of an infection that occurred in my last 5 batches. I have an...

Thanks for the advice. I actually took it !! I went to lowes yesterday and found a 1/2" cpvc "union" that's going to work tremendously !! Now the whole thing is glued together and screws right on to the brass nipple leading to my valve. So that way I can unscrew it and take it off. I reworked my...

Yeah, I'd love to use a false bottom but I'm using a rectangular cooler and I don't believe they make a false bottom for this type of cooler. I made a manifold out of cpvc and it works great !! The only problem is that I keep pulling it apart while I'm stirring the grain. I probably get a...