Yes was my first time dry hopping
Thanks for the info still new to all this
That broken ice-pack stuff was an infection getting started.
Anyone have issues with tons of large yeast rafts sitting in suspension with US 05? When I racked to the bottling bucket you could see debris from the top to the bottom in various amounts. Is that a typical characteristic of the strain? 2 weeks in primary and 1 week in secondary at 60°-64° entire time. OG of 1.07 and FG of 1.015.
I've used Safale US-05 many times and any yeast raft's I've had usually sunk eventually. I had some stick around a couple of times till I tapped the fermenter and then they decided to sink... After a month I've never really seen large amounts of "floaters"...
So I'm having my first run-in with what I think it a contaminated IPA.
It was racked from primary to secondary, where we dry-hopped it. Krausen in primary looked great, no issues. No visible krausen in secondary.
We transferred it from secondary into a keg, and then ran it through a filter and into a second keg. purged the headspace with a little CO2 and let it set for a day or so to reabsorb diacetyls. Everything was fine, nothing developed on the top of the beer.
I realized too late that I needed the keg that the IPA was in. Since it wasn't carbonated yet, I transferred it out of the keg back into a glass carboy.
This is where stuff goes south. The carboy is glass and was sanitized with Star San prior to racking, however, I didn't wash it because I was positive I had done that before putting it away and I was in a hurry. I the carboy in the ferm chamber with an airlock on April 30th.
Then some stuff started to develop...
May 4th
May 5th
May 11th
I'm afraid to taste it. I don't know anything about botulism other than I don't want it. Anyone care to weigh in here?
How's this look day 14 SMASH
It smell and test OK... gravity haven't changed since day 7.
Was about to cold condition.
None of those pictures work.
Pictures from my post should work now. I'd really like to know if this thing is salvageable.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I brought my IPA upstairs from the cellar to bottle it, and I saw this. Is it my first infection? I took a gravity reading just the other day, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.
Just off-gassing bubbles from the yeast cake moving in transit, right?Don't see anything wrong in there.
Pictures from my post should work now. I'd really like to know if this thing is salvageable.
Just off-gassing bubbles from the yeast cake moving in transit, right?
I was only worried because it took >4 weeks to finish fermentation, and the surface *had* been totally clear. Also, it had been fermenting fairly close to my sour.
But like I said, I suspected I was just being paranoid.
Noticed these round colonies forming at the top of my primary fermenter. Are they yeast colonies or an infection?
Looks like an infection. Taste it, it won't kill you.
Doesn't look infected to me, but if you want to be extra-safe, just give your gear an extra-long soak in the ol' StarSan.I can't believe I'm doing this, but is this the beginnings of an infection? I'm thinking yeast rafts, but the beer went from clear to this between weeks 4 and 5 in fermentor. It was sticky sticky and clung to sides of the spiedel as I racked and the bubbles were thick and unpoppable.
Let me also say this is bottled and I don't care if its an infection because it was delicious and I'm drinking it, but it did have a rich cherry/stone fruit taste to it that wasn't there a week ago. All I want to know is whether I need to worry about my cold side equipment for future brews.
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