Thanks all. As adventerous as I am, I hate bottling more. This weekend I bottled 15g and 10g last weekend not to mention Oxysoaking and rinsing like 500. The thought of rebottling makes me nauseous. I might change my mind tomorrow.
Oh, yeah, it had an awesome pellicle in the primary bucket. Like a frozen lake. Just never saw the bubbles in there.Exposure to oxygen caused the pellicle after you collected it. Looks nice BTW
Followup to my previous (post 1917).
After a week in the bottles, each one has a solid pellicle. They also have very thin hair / stringlike strands below the pellicle. Not worried, just really curious if lacto or wild yeast / brett?
The second pic looks more ropy than it is. It's really very thin little hairlike strands with a small clump on the end that stretches down.
Followup to my previous (post 1917).
After a week in the bottles, each one has a solid pellicle. They also have very thin hair / stringlike strands below the pellicle. Not worried, just really curious if lacto or wild yeast / brett?
The second pic looks more ropy than it is. It's really very thin little hairlike strands with a small clump on the end that stretches down.
Did you use a lot of Irish moss? I've had strange floating clumps w lots of Irish moss. Those clumps never did drop out even after a year+. If it's pedio the ropiness is supposed to be gone after the first cool day or following the summer heat per Mr Sparrow.
it is very unlikely that you will correctly identify the source of an infection based on the appearance of the pellicle. in other words, the fact that you have a pellicle means that you have something in there but you're unlikely to know what without tasting, using a microscope, a genetic sequencer, etc.
what we commonly refer to as "wild yeast" is not always brett. it can also be a saccharomyces (not just cerevisiae - could be eubayanus, paradoxus, uvarum, etc.), or a species of candida, hanseniaspora/kloeckera or schizosaccharomyces... lots of options.
that's a good question. i don't think lacto can super-attenuate, dunno.
ipe:It is taking near superhuman powers to resist buying a microscope, not to look at this infection but just to expand the brewing further. My wife says I 'conquer hobbies' and it's manifesting itself again. There is little reason to get one, I doubt it would change anything as far as my yeast prep goes, but but but but you get to look at the yeast and bacteria up close.
edit: aaaaaand I caved. Probably bought the wrong inexpensive Chinese thing, but it was $80, trinocular, halogen, and came with a whole bunch of extra eyepieces, connectors, adapters etc.
i could be wrong, but i don't believe that 100X is sufficient to see yeast (let alone bacteria).
Any idea what I have going on here? Brett maybe? The pellicle didn't show up until after the fruit addition, so I'm assuming it came with the raspberries. I did freeze them before adding, but didn't take any other steps to sanitize them.
Its a Gose, so either way I guess a little more funk won't hurt. But I was hoping to bottle last week, and now I'll have to put that on hold for a few months.
