Steve-n-Son
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So I was brewing my third batch of beer to date, an Imperial pale ale from a brewer's best kit. OG 1.079. After a week from brew day I opened the primary to take a reading and I saw some things on the surface of the beer that I hadn't seen before. I took a wiff and is smelled very vinegary and stung my nose (though I've been led to believe that's co2). I put it in the secondary and a week later I tasted it before bottling. It didn't taste sour or musky, just like beer. I had sanitized all my equipment thoroughly using star-sans.
FG was 1.018.
I was hoping that someone would be able to tell me if these are signs of a bacterial infection.
I've posted 4 pics of the beer after a week in the primary and another one of the beer sitting in the bottling bucket a week after that, where there was a film on the beer which I skimmed off before bottling.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
FG was 1.018.
I was hoping that someone would be able to tell me if these are signs of a bacterial infection.
I've posted 4 pics of the beer after a week in the primary and another one of the beer sitting in the bottling bucket a week after that, where there was a film on the beer which I skimmed off before bottling.
Any help is greatly appreciated!