h4mmy86
Well-Known Member
So it happened. I finally had an infection. The dreaded white ring of death!
I'm not sure at what point my beer got infected is the trouble.
Here are a couple suspected moments:
Fermentation blasted the bung off my car boy splattering krausen up to the ceiling while we weren't home, leaving it uncovered for a couple hours. I came home, saw the mess, and recapped the carboy with a fresh bung and blowoff tube.
We left again for a couple weeks while the beer remained in primary in a swamp cooler. When we came home I saw that my water had evaporated leaving a molded towel around my carboy. Nasty stuff indeed.
If not then, I suspect it happened during bottling. I didn't notice anything that looked like infection during bottling, and I tasted my gravity sample, it seemed alright best I can recall.
Every bottle is infected so I don't kind of doubt that every bottle would get infected from contaminants in the bottles.
I washed and saved the yeast after bottling and now I wonder if I should trash it to avoid risking future contamination.
I'm super paranoid after my first infection and want to do my best to avoid this happening again.
Would I be able to see or smell infection in the jars of harvested yeast? Because they seem to look fine, though I haven't opened any jars.
Thanks for ur input!
I'm not sure at what point my beer got infected is the trouble.
Here are a couple suspected moments:
Fermentation blasted the bung off my car boy splattering krausen up to the ceiling while we weren't home, leaving it uncovered for a couple hours. I came home, saw the mess, and recapped the carboy with a fresh bung and blowoff tube.
We left again for a couple weeks while the beer remained in primary in a swamp cooler. When we came home I saw that my water had evaporated leaving a molded towel around my carboy. Nasty stuff indeed.
If not then, I suspect it happened during bottling. I didn't notice anything that looked like infection during bottling, and I tasted my gravity sample, it seemed alright best I can recall.
Every bottle is infected so I don't kind of doubt that every bottle would get infected from contaminants in the bottles.
I washed and saved the yeast after bottling and now I wonder if I should trash it to avoid risking future contamination.
I'm super paranoid after my first infection and want to do my best to avoid this happening again.
Would I be able to see or smell infection in the jars of harvested yeast? Because they seem to look fine, though I haven't opened any jars.
Thanks for ur input!