Flanders Brown keeps dropping pellicle

[goswell]

I brewed my first sour about 14 months ago and up until now everything has been going really well. The beer was a standard grist for a Flanders and I pitched one pack of Wyeast Roeselare Blend only, since I was going for a nicely sour beer. After a month or so it developed a nice, nasty looking pellicle just as I expected.
Here is where it gets strange (for me at least). After about a year I tested the beer by siphoning a bit off the top (tasted great!). In doing so I messed up the pellicle and it ended up falling to the bottom of the fermentor. Since then it as been creating a new thin pellicle which immediately falls to the bottom again. It seems to do this over and over? Not sure what is going on, has anybody seen this before?

 

[sweetcell]

don't worry about it. the bugs in the beer know what they are doing. if they need a pellicle, they'll make one. a pellicle isn't required to make a good sour.

*sometimes*, the pellicle drops when the bugs have done most of their work and there is very little food left for them. *if* this is the case, you might never get a pellicle again. no need to concern yourself

 

[goswell]

don't worry about it. the bugs in the beer know what they are doing. if they need a pellicle, they'll make one. a pellicle isn't required to make a good sour.

*sometimes*, the pellicle drops when the bugs have done most of their work and there is very little food left for them. *if* this is the case, you might never get a pellicle again. no need to concern yourself

Sweet. I plan to bottle it later this summer so I'll leave it be for now.

 

[BryanThompson]

I've had pellicles fall from rough housing with my son too close to them.