brewintheboat
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Hi everyone, I've been all-grain brewing for two years now and I finally came across a situation that I just can't figure out. Since i've found so many answers be searching this forum, I thought I would see what you all thought.
I brewed a double batch of pale ale about three weeks ago and split it into two separate buckets for fermentation. Everything went as planned during primary so i went ahead and racked to new buckets and dry hopped for two weeks at 65 deg. I wanted to make sure that these batches were as clear as possible, so i decided to rack them to new buckets again before cold crashing for a week or two. The first beer is completely normal, but the second bucket has this white crust on the surface. The crust is thin and breaks apart easliy and pretty much looks like an ice sheet breaking up in the arctic.
Both batches used the same yeast starter (white labs CaliIV) and hops for dry hopping. The only difference was I used sanitized cheese cloth to hold the hops in the batch in question.
The crust has no taste and the beer tastes a little off, but not enough to really identify what is wrong with it at this stage.
Any thoughts?
I brewed a double batch of pale ale about three weeks ago and split it into two separate buckets for fermentation. Everything went as planned during primary so i went ahead and racked to new buckets and dry hopped for two weeks at 65 deg. I wanted to make sure that these batches were as clear as possible, so i decided to rack them to new buckets again before cold crashing for a week or two. The first beer is completely normal, but the second bucket has this white crust on the surface. The crust is thin and breaks apart easliy and pretty much looks like an ice sheet breaking up in the arctic.
Both batches used the same yeast starter (white labs CaliIV) and hops for dry hopping. The only difference was I used sanitized cheese cloth to hold the hops in the batch in question.
The crust has no taste and the beer tastes a little off, but not enough to really identify what is wrong with it at this stage.
Any thoughts?