HoppyDaze
Well-Known Member
I've done a handful of all grain batches. This weekend I tried a summer beer; the highly rated bombshell ale from the recipe database. I have never come across this stuff before
I first noticed the stringy material when I dipped my hose (from first runnings) into my sanitizer bucket. It looks like snake shed but much smaller; empty "tubes" about a half inch long that have the firmness and stability of skin. It takes a moderate amount of torque to tear them.
I run a devise that aerates the wort (lazy method) that is a cone that connects to the hose and ispointed towards the incoming wort. Anyway...this devise caught a ton of these stringy things when I transferred to the fermenter. And now that I take a closer look at the bucket that that I soak some of my equipment, I see many more (now floaters).
Imagine trying to peel off a hangnail and a half inch of skin comes with; this is what it looks like. We can talk about why that is my best description later
The only thing I can think of that I did different was add more rice hulls, which are the same size as mysterious phenomenon.
God, I hope my beer doesn't have the swine flu
thanks,
JLS
I first noticed the stringy material when I dipped my hose (from first runnings) into my sanitizer bucket. It looks like snake shed but much smaller; empty "tubes" about a half inch long that have the firmness and stability of skin. It takes a moderate amount of torque to tear them.
I run a devise that aerates the wort (lazy method) that is a cone that connects to the hose and ispointed towards the incoming wort. Anyway...this devise caught a ton of these stringy things when I transferred to the fermenter. And now that I take a closer look at the bucket that that I soak some of my equipment, I see many more (now floaters).
Imagine trying to peel off a hangnail and a half inch of skin comes with; this is what it looks like. We can talk about why that is my best description later
The only thing I can think of that I did different was add more rice hulls, which are the same size as mysterious phenomenon.
God, I hope my beer doesn't have the swine flu
thanks,
JLS