Snowblindz
New Member
I've had my beer dry hopping for 7 days in a hop bag. I removed it today & noticed a lot of white floating bits (see picture below). After doing research on this forum it looks to me like it could be the beginnings of a Brett infection. I've never had any infections in my beer before so would like to get some opinions from people on this forum.
1. Does this look like an infection to you, or something else? The beer tastes and smells great. It could possibly be the best beer I've made so far.
2. If it is an infection, what's the best action to take? Will it help to hit it with campden tablets or potassium sorbate (I force carb so no issue there)? I'd rather not pasteurise.
3. Would adding honey (ie more sugars) to kick start the non-Brett yeast strain do any good in suppressing the Brett strain, or would they just work together?
4. This is the first time I've dry-hopped a beer after primary fermentation & coincidentally the first infection (if that's what it is). I sterilised the hop bag in boiling water, but my understanding is the hop pallets themselves don't need to be sterilised. Is this correct?
Sorry for the long post & thanks in advance for any help.
1. Does this look like an infection to you, or something else? The beer tastes and smells great. It could possibly be the best beer I've made so far.
2. If it is an infection, what's the best action to take? Will it help to hit it with campden tablets or potassium sorbate (I force carb so no issue there)? I'd rather not pasteurise.
3. Would adding honey (ie more sugars) to kick start the non-Brett yeast strain do any good in suppressing the Brett strain, or would they just work together?
4. This is the first time I've dry-hopped a beer after primary fermentation & coincidentally the first infection (if that's what it is). I sterilised the hop bag in boiling water, but my understanding is the hop pallets themselves don't need to be sterilised. Is this correct?
Sorry for the long post & thanks in advance for any help.