Okay, I'm trying my hand at a Berliner Weisse and used a Wyeast Lactobacillus Delbruekii strain. It has been sitting for about a month at nice warm temps. So today I open the primary to see what my next steps will be and I find this beauty. I know I'm supposed to get some fun and scary looking stuff doing a sour but the green, fuzy stuff scares me a bit.
The recipe was:
4# Pilsner
4# Wheat
Mash at 150*F for 90mins
15 min boil with 1oz Hallertaur
I have not added any Sacch yet
OG was higher than anticipated at 1.050
Todays gravity with a Refractometer was 1.035 so if alchohol was produced it converts to a gravity of 1.024.
The smell is not bad at all and even though the mold is scary I tasted a couple drops from the pipette and it was not bad either, not even sour.
Looking at racking, bringing down temp adding some Sacch for a few days then bottle and hope I don't die. Any thoughts or recommendations welcome.
Looks like I might have Brett pellicles forming in two batches?
1st pic has been in secondary for two days, 2nd pic is the other in primary just under a week (looked clear as of yesterday).
Looks fine to me...
Ewww, A query though, Is mold bad for you?
My question then is how did the mold get in when I sanatized like usual and added the Lacto and left it alone?
Here's mine...anyone know what I got? It's sitting on a IPA (no dry hopping), beer underneath is kegged and yummy All i did was split a batch into two different buckets, S04 and US-05. this is the US-05, but it did sit on the yeast for a full month, opposed to 10 days for the S04.
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Here's mine...anyone know what I got? It's sitting on a IPA (no dry hopping), beer underneath is kegged and yummy All i did was split a batch into two different buckets, S04 and US-05. this is the US-05, but it did sit on the yeast for a full month, opposed to 10 days for the S04.
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If anyone can repost these pics so they show up with IMG tags, that would be most helpful.
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Hey, guys. I've been home brewing with the Mr. Beer kits and extracts for about 6 months now.
Today is bottling day for a few batches and when I went to check out my brews last night, I observed an odd floating mass in one of my fermenters. I've never seen such large quantities of residual krausen so I was wondering if it's contamination. Does this look normal? I haven't sample it yet.
First and second pictures shows some translucent 'skin' floating at or below the beer line.
Third, fourth and fifth pictures show large, white patches of wet matter.
Additionally, this recipe is a Mr. Beer Witty Monk. I added 1/2 cup of brown sugar when mixing the extract and boiled water. I used an entire pack of Safbrew WB-06 (11.5 grams).
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Can't tell for sure, you'll have to open the top to give us a better look. But overall it looks fine to me.
Pictures without the fermenter's lid.
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That's disappointing as I was really looking forward to this recipe. I still haven't tasted it yet.
Taste it, nothing ventured, nothing gained. It may not be sour yet, it may even be the best beer you've ever made. If you have any plastic soda bottles lying around, you can bottle it without any real concern of bottle bombs. Just don't use that fermenter again or you risk the same infection in another batch.
Too late. I just tried some. It has soured.
Now I'm trying to figure out how it was contaminated. Obviously not cleaning and sanitizing thoroughly. My other two batches from that same brew-day look fine.
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My first brew after one week in secondary. Anything going on here I should be worried about?
Man, how do you guys even think of drinking some of this stuff in the pictures. I know it could possibly be fine after time in a bottle, but damn, I don't think I could get by the visual factor to put it in my mouth to give it a taste.....
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