Help for a new guy!!

[BrutusMan]

Brewed a Kolsh as my second attempt. Left in primary fermenter for 1 week, and just checked the secondary after 12 days and find this floating. There's not a lot of it, but it looks like cracker crumbs.

Any ideas/advice? Thanks!

 

[Dynachrome]

What does it smell like?

...yeast clumps?

If it smells like bear, you should be OK. Kolsch is a tad off, right?

 

[monkeybox]

I hope it smells like beer, and not bear.

 

[davcar74]

Could be yeast, protein, etc. Sometimes, they all just look wierd at different phases. My reccomendation? Leave it the hell alone. Don't go smelling it every day (I know it's hard not to), etc. There's a good, if not great, chance that nothing is wrong and it would be a shame to open it a bunch of times to smell it and introduce a contaminant that was never a problem in the first place.

 

[BrutusMan]

Someone else recommended to let it go another week, bottle it and hope for the best. Is this stuff harmful if I do that?

 

[duttonjc]

The let it go is great advice. Before you bottle taste it. If taste good go ahead and bottle it

 

[BrewHobby1]

I have tasted lightly infected beer. Unless you have been drinking heavily you will know if its funky. I was drinking quite a few and I got just an unusual headache.

It could be just floating yeast clumps that you see, assuming you cleaned and sanitized well.

 

[beerman0001]

Someone else recommended to let it go another week, bottle it and hope for the best. Is this stuff harmful if I do that?

Nothing harmful can grow in beer.

 

[Calder]

It is yeast. Step back from the fermenter and leave it alone. It will be fine. More likely to introduce a problem by messing with it.

 

[kevinb]

Like everyone has suggested, leave it alone. I am sure it is fine.