how does yeast cake taste??? is my stout infected??

[jourelemode]

so im setting up to bottle right now and I took a sample of the beer to get a gravity reading. The sample I got is really merky so im assuming it has a lot of the trub/yeast in it. When i tasted it, it was sour. so i was worried about it and thought that maybe its infected. I haven't had an infected beer before, but I took off the lid on my bucket to see if there are any nasties on the top and I didn't see any pellicles or whatever. Looked normal to me. could it be the trub/yeast that im tasting??? or is my beer jacked??? the last time I took a gravity reading two weeks ago it tasted fine and I made sure to star san the valve before and after taking a sample. what gives??

thanks

 

[PVH]

If you got a lot of trub in the sample, you should expect it to taste weird. Reminds me of a homebrewer who asked if the beer was infected if the krauesen tasted bad. I wondered why the brewer was even tasting the krauesen.

 

[LostBavarianMan]

tasting the krauesen has never crossed my mind. Nor should it. YUCK!!!!

 

[PVH]

I'm still waiting for "I placed the blowoff tube in my mouth at high krausen and it tasted awful! Is my beer ruined?"

 

[jourelemode]

here's to hoping the sarcastic responses will prove to be right. I'll taste a portion thats not trubbed out when I start the bottling process.

 

[PVH]

here's to hoping the sarcastic responses will prove to be right. I'll taste a portion thats not trubbed out when I start the bottling process.

Sorry man - I was just having some fun. I don't mean to be unhelpful. It sounds like the sample you tasted was full of trub and yeast, which I would expect to taste bad. It is almost certainly not infected based on your description.

Do you have a wine thief or turkey baster you could take a sample with without the chance of pulling beer off the bottom of the fermenter? If you can get a sample from a few inches under the surface, you'll know it isn't full of crud.

I hope bottling goes well.

 

[Malintent]

you tasted trub. very sour and just bad tasting.

 

[jourelemode]

woot woot!!! its not infected. I just tasted a sample that's not murky. It has a chocolate taste with some roast malt and in the finish I can taste a lot of caramel, like the fudge kind.

 

[beerloaf]

Well on that note, I wonder if you can just deep fry the yeast cake and eat it? I heard you can deep fry anything.....good to hear about your beer doing well.