Tippsy-Turvy
Well-Known Member
Well, not "my" infection but my beer's. Does the white stuff in the photo look like an infection of my beer or is that what oxidation looks like?
By way of detail, I experimented using my bottle as a "secondary" and soaked adjuncts in it for week before removing them and throwing in some sugar cubes to begin the carbonation. My suspicions are:
1)The sugar cubes came from a jar which my entire family regularly stick their hands in so, on hindsight, perhaps the cubes could have been microwaved first??
2)There was a thread tied to the adjunct bag in the beer which came out of the bottle and tied off at the bottle neck which might have meant the bottle cap wasn't sealed properly?
3)The head space was still too large and I should have filled the bottle to the top (or added a little sugar to create CO2)?
4) all of the above??
Incidentally, only the bottles experimented with in this batch have this white stuff.
Thanks
By way of detail, I experimented using my bottle as a "secondary" and soaked adjuncts in it for week before removing them and throwing in some sugar cubes to begin the carbonation. My suspicions are:
1)The sugar cubes came from a jar which my entire family regularly stick their hands in so, on hindsight, perhaps the cubes could have been microwaved first??
2)There was a thread tied to the adjunct bag in the beer which came out of the bottle and tied off at the bottle neck which might have meant the bottle cap wasn't sealed properly?
3)The head space was still too large and I should have filled the bottle to the top (or added a little sugar to create CO2)?
4) all of the above??
Incidentally, only the bottles experimented with in this batch have this white stuff.
Thanks