Georgian Novice
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Here is a question for you all that I think I already know the answer too. . .but we will see.
I have a friend who made the Octane IPA kit from Midwest about 5 weeks ago, standard 5 gallons. Brew went well, put it in primary. He forgot to put the middle piece in the 3-piece airlock overnight and caught it the next morning. Vigorous fermentation.
Transfered it to glass carboy for secondary after 1 week. Dry hopped it and also put wood chips in that came with kit. He boiled the chips for 15 minutes but did not do anything with the hops. No bag, just threw it in there.
1 week goes by. He notices quite a bit of bubbling at the surface. It is primarily green (which we assume is the hops) and some white patches. Frankly, it looks like mold a bit. He checks the airlock and upon fooling with it a bit he forces it too much, breaks it, and the sanitized liquid goes into the beer. He puts a new airlock on it. etc.
2 weeks go by. I came over to see it and we did a hydrometer reading and a taste test. Tasted fine, a little "burnt" taste a bit, but probably from the wood chips, hydro meter reading was right at it's supposed FG, 1.018. He left it for another week.
He transferred it to a tertiary last week and after 5 weeks it looks like the picture shown. Still a moldy type of layer, green and white, looks like penicillan, and we have about 3 gallons left after all the trub and sediment has been racked off. It is still bubbling about 1 per 10 seconds or so after 5 weeks.
Whatchall Think? Mold? Bad bacteria? Great brew?
I have a friend who made the Octane IPA kit from Midwest about 5 weeks ago, standard 5 gallons. Brew went well, put it in primary. He forgot to put the middle piece in the 3-piece airlock overnight and caught it the next morning. Vigorous fermentation.
Transfered it to glass carboy for secondary after 1 week. Dry hopped it and also put wood chips in that came with kit. He boiled the chips for 15 minutes but did not do anything with the hops. No bag, just threw it in there.
1 week goes by. He notices quite a bit of bubbling at the surface. It is primarily green (which we assume is the hops) and some white patches. Frankly, it looks like mold a bit. He checks the airlock and upon fooling with it a bit he forces it too much, breaks it, and the sanitized liquid goes into the beer. He puts a new airlock on it. etc.
2 weeks go by. I came over to see it and we did a hydrometer reading and a taste test. Tasted fine, a little "burnt" taste a bit, but probably from the wood chips, hydro meter reading was right at it's supposed FG, 1.018. He left it for another week.
He transferred it to a tertiary last week and after 5 weeks it looks like the picture shown. Still a moldy type of layer, green and white, looks like penicillan, and we have about 3 gallons left after all the trub and sediment has been racked off. It is still bubbling about 1 per 10 seconds or so after 5 weeks.
Whatchall Think? Mold? Bad bacteria? Great brew?