Slobberchops
Active Member
Hi there,
I opened up a couple bottles of Dark Belgian Ale I brewed to get...gushers. The beer had probably been in the bottle about 3-4 weeks.
My question is this - when I bottled, I got a fair amount of trub/sediment/etc in the bottom of the bottling bucket. I bottled as much as I could, meaning that I had a few bottles I knew would have more sediment than others. I recall in a previous batch that I had one bottle that was "dregs" that was also a gusher. Is a gusher always mean an infection (the beer tastes OK, but there is a lot of particulate at the bottom), or is "dregs" a possible explanation?
When I open the bottles, they don't gush right away. Rather, there is a pause and then foam forms and starts rushing out of the bottle. The bubbles seems to pick up sediment from the bottom of the bottle circulating around in the beer.
I took a hydrometer reading, and it is the same as when I bottled it. Yeast was Wyeast 3787 (Trappist High Gravity).
Anyone have any thoughts or seen this type of behavior before?
Thanks!
I opened up a couple bottles of Dark Belgian Ale I brewed to get...gushers. The beer had probably been in the bottle about 3-4 weeks.
My question is this - when I bottled, I got a fair amount of trub/sediment/etc in the bottom of the bottling bucket. I bottled as much as I could, meaning that I had a few bottles I knew would have more sediment than others. I recall in a previous batch that I had one bottle that was "dregs" that was also a gusher. Is a gusher always mean an infection (the beer tastes OK, but there is a lot of particulate at the bottom), or is "dregs" a possible explanation?
When I open the bottles, they don't gush right away. Rather, there is a pause and then foam forms and starts rushing out of the bottle. The bubbles seems to pick up sediment from the bottom of the bottle circulating around in the beer.
I took a hydrometer reading, and it is the same as when I bottled it. Yeast was Wyeast 3787 (Trappist High Gravity).
Anyone have any thoughts or seen this type of behavior before?
Thanks!