NOISEpollution
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These white bubbles have shown up in my past few batches. I think it's brett. Haven't noticed any problems with flavor.
These white bubbles have shown up in my past few batches. I think it's brett. Haven't noticed any problems with flavor.
Well, the first batch it happened in wasn't great but I blame that more on me just throwing together some random grains and hops and calling it a beer. The second batch was a hefeweizen. The white stuff appeared after 3 weeks. Kegged it after 4 months. Finished the keg about 2 weeks later and everyone that's tried my beers agreed that was my best batch yet.NordeastBrewer77 said:the two longer 'rafts' right on the edge of the bucket in the bottom of the pic look odd to me as well. it's really hard to tell w/small intertron pics, so i don't wanna scare ya and claim i can tell it's contaminated, but if that was on one of my brews i'd be a bit worried. you say it doesn't taste infected when this has happened in a previous batch? how long has that last batch(s) been packaged?
The second batch was a hefeweizen. The white stuff appeared after 3 weeks. Kegged it after 4 months. Finished the keg about 2 weeks later and everyone that's tried my beers agreed that was my best batch yet.
Or... just clean them with bleach/water after each batch. Then Star-san before use.
Gary
Alright thanks guys. Should I not bother harvesting the yeast from this batch?
Say this batch is infected but I keg it and it still tastes good. Will drinking it make me sick or will infection only affect the taste, aroma, etc?
Better than safe than sorry, I wouldn't harvest from an infected batch....but that may just be me.
For those that have used bleach, what dilution rates are you using? I have seen anywhere from a few T to a cup per 5 gallons.
Alright thanks guys. Should I not bother harvesting the yeast from this batch?
Also, are you really going to serve that to your friends? I don't care if it tastes good that beer is wretched. Picture a filthy kitchen and refrigerator at a restaurant. The food might taste fine to the customers, but if they saw how dirty the kitchen was they would walk out.
pathogens will not live in beer.
the beer won't hurt you, make you sick or anything like that. it may taste like Satan's ar$e, but it won't hurt anything.
Exactly. No pathogens in beer. I was just saying that some lambic beers etc may make someone honk just because of the taste, and have nothing to do with anything but the beer itself. We all have one. Stagg is another beer that comes to mind.
oh yeah, it may totally smell foul... maybe even make a throw up a little in your mouth. but nothing compared to what a dirty restaurant kitchen could do if you eat food from it.
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