So I brewed up MoreBeer's Pliny the Elder extract clone, doing a starter using Wyeast 1056 for a good 30 hours. My sanitizing methods were good, but I made one mistake in the whole process. The recipe called for a boil of 1lb corn sugar, and a whirlfloc tablet during the last 10 minutes of the boil, which I neglected to do. Realizing this a couple of hours later after I pitched the yeast, I boiled both the corn syrup and and tablet in 1 cup of water (probably not enough) for 10-15 min. I waited until it cooled down, but unfortunately it wasn't diluted enough where the sugar was thick like honey. I put as much that I could get in the carboy, but a krausen was already developing.
Now, there seems to be a cottage cheese like appearance around the top of the wort, but in chunks. So it's good in some areas, but in other areas, looks like the cottage cheese.
So, I realize that I made some mistakes on this brew, but am I being paranoid about a possible infection? Could it be that these chunks are simply the corn syrup that was on top of the krausen which didn't settle down yet?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Now, there seems to be a cottage cheese like appearance around the top of the wort, but in chunks. So it's good in some areas, but in other areas, looks like the cottage cheese.
So, I realize that I made some mistakes on this brew, but am I being paranoid about a possible infection? Could it be that these chunks are simply the corn syrup that was on top of the krausen which didn't settle down yet?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!