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BMGfan

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Hey folks,

You all have been SUPER helpful in the past and I'm probably concerned over nothing, but I figure I'll bring it to you the experienced brewers for thoughts.

Here's the timeline of the beer:
-My 3rd batch, first two went smoothly and exactly as expected despite a bit of difficulty with temp control.

-This beer is the Coopers Irish stout kit, done with 1kg of DME and a bit of dextrose to bring the SG to 1.05 (I can't find my notes anywhere so I'm working off memory here). Yeast was the included stout yeast.

-I started the kit, after a week I check the SG and it had only moved ~10 points or so, I was concerned it stalled so I repitched with the only yeast I had around, a standard coopers ale yeast.

-Life got in the way and the beer sat in the primary bucket in a swamp cooler (water only, no ice) for ~2 months. I went to bottle tonight and I found a layer of scum on top of the beer I've never seen before. Looked like yeast cake, quite hearty in meat and body and fairly thin.

-Taking Revvy's and everyone else's advice into account I tasted it and it tasted fine (in fact pretty good!), but there were all these floaties in it that were pretty gross for mouth feel wise

-Rather than bottle it ask risk bombs when I have to leave home for a month, I just racked it to a secondary and came this way for advice. As I racked it I noticed a lot of the same scum was built up on the side of the bucket as well.

Sadly I didn't take any pictures of the top scum but the attached pictures of the remnants are a little concerning to me. Yes I know any concern is probably over reacting, but I'd rather be a bit cautious than deal with flying glass everywhere :p

Thanks in advance guys for any thoughts you might have on what this stuff is. (my main thought right now is over pitched yeast from the "stalled" ferment)
-David

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Thanks guys, I'm glad to have confirmation I was pretty sure it wasn't as it tasted ok. :)

So what is this sh....er...stuff? And how do I get it out of my beer? Will it just drop out eventually given enough time?
 
It just looks like you've racked the beer and now need to clean the fermentor. :D

If there's an infection, there's nothing in these pictures to suggest it!
 
I'd be more worried about that it looks a bit pale for a stout. ;)
 
Without seeing what the wort looked for before you racked I honestly wouldn't be comfortable telling you it was not infected. The only batches I have ever had with that streakiness were ones with pectiles, both intentionally and unintentionally infected...

And the chutes in the "Recycling toilets" on the private islands I worked on looked like that... :D
 
I've lost all hope in humanity after this is my empty bucket infected thread.
 
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