What. Was. THAT?

[PhelanKA7]

So I'm drinkin off some homebrew. Have one bottle and everything's fine and dandy. Pour the second glass. Don't notice anything amiss, but as I go to take a sip a few minutes later after the head comes down I see THIS:

I have a freaking brown booger or jellyfish organism floating on the top of my beer! Is it something that perhaps grew on the bottom of the bottle? It resembles a hunk of dead skin soaked in beer. After spooning out this thing I took a drink and it tastes fine. Anyone wanna play 21 questions about what this could possibly be? Aside from grain the only thing I put into this beer was a star of anise but this doesn't look like that and I doubt it could have gotten past fermentation to the bottling bucket and into a bottle.

Anyone wanna be a Whirfloc Holmes on this mystery?

 

[david_42]

Yeast.

 

[PhelanKA7]

Yeast.

Seriously? I have never seen this before after about 30 brews.

 

[jeepinjeepin]

Were they used bottles?
Are you absolutely 100% definitely 100% positive they were 100% clean?

 

[Dan]

Hops petal?

 

[TwoGunz]

Yup, it's a condom

 

[Uziyahu]

looks like mold from the bottom of a bottle to me.

 

[PhelanKA7]

looks like mold from the bottom of a bottle to me.

THat's what I'm guessing too. ANd that's what I'm going to tell myself. Like I said, beer tastes fine so I'm gonna keep drinking it but I can't look at that picture again or I'm gonna barf.

 

[alexand]

What's that? I never got that problem before.

 

[barneygumble]

It looks for all the world like scorched extract, but you said you used grain. I'll go along with the mold theory.

 

[stdywell]

Condom. Yup.

 

[Zuljin]

So if every step looked good up to pouring that out of one bottle, and given its shape, I too am going bottom of a dirty bottle crud.

Despite "knowing" I have cleaned every bottle, I have gone to bottling, turned a bottle to the light and said, wtf is that, and tossed it into the recycle bin.

 

[IXVolt]

Looks like you didn't have that bottle clean enough. That's what mold looks like...IMO

 

[passedpawn]

looks like mold from the bottom of a bottle to me.

Looks like you didn't have that bottle clean enough. That's what mold looks like...IMO

Yep. Beer was left in the bottom of the bottle, it dried into a little rubbery film, and floated to the top of the next beer in the bottle. I have seen this. I inspect every cleaned bottle by looking "down the barrel" at a bright window.

 

[Billy356]

Was anyone being circumcised near your wort or bottling bucket? ...just a thought.....

 

[wolfstar]

alien placenta

 

[malevolent]

Either mold or its some coagulated protein. Last 1.5bbl batch we did a skin formed on top of the beer as it went into the primary. Looked strangely like that.

 

[barneygumble]

either mold or its some coagulated protein. Last 1.5bbl batch we did a skin formed on top of the beer as it went into the primary. Looked strangely like that.

Hmmm........

 

[fright101]

I'm fairly certain, that if I took a swig and encountered the pseudo-condom looking beastie that you pulled from your bottle, I would have puked...And I would likely not taken a swig after it got "poured" out...LOL

It's a good conversation piece though

 

[PhelanKA7]

I'm fairly certain, that if I took a swig and encountered the pseudo-condom looking beastie that you pulled from your bottle, I would have puked...And I would likely not taken a swig after it got "poured" out...LOL

It's a good conversation piece though

I used to be homeless. I can eat/drink damn near anything. :fro:

 

[unionrdr]

Idk...looks like an alien love secret to me. Coagulated proteins def comes to mind...all men mak'em.

 

[Jayhem]

I'm torn between top guesses of condom or coagulated protein.

 

[rodwha]

Was anyone being circumcised near your wort or bottling bucket? ...just a thought.....

I'm goin' with this response! Too funny!

 

[karljrberno]

were they used bottles?
Are you absolutely 100% definitely 100% positive they were 100% clean?

+1

 

[PhelanKA7]

Were they used bottles?
Are you absolutely 100% definitely 100% positive they were 100% clean?

No I'm not so I'm thinking now it was a dirty bottle. Oh well. I'm not sick today so I guess it wasn't ebola. The beer did have kind of a "spicy" taste and didn't keep a head on the beer for very long. I guess that made the beer a BIPA lambic. New style!

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Yup, it's a condom

Condom. Yup.

USED condom, of course.

 

[unionrdr]

No I'm not so I'm thinking now it was a dirty bottle. Oh well. I'm not sick today so I guess it wasn't ebola. The beer did have kind of a "spicy" taste and didn't keep a head on the beer for very long. I guess that made the beer a BIPA lambic. New style!

Well...if it was a condom,somebody may have had Tex/Mex right before...

 

[Homercidal]

Ringworm...

 

[CreamyGoodness]

If its mold, just think "bleu cheese"... thats how Id get my head around it.

 

[spearko520]

yeah - that definitely looks like a blown out jimmy wrapper. a daddy doughnut.

 

[the_bird]

That is about the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. If I found that in a bottle of my homebrew, I'm pretty sure I'd delete my membership here and become a post-whore over at www.projectilevomitingtalk.com.

 

[NickTheGreat]

That is about the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. If I found that in a bottle of my homebrew, I'm pretty sure I'd delete my membership here and become a post-whore over at www.projectilevomitingtalk.com.

I'm thinking something along the lines of that

 

[wolfstar]

Ringworm...

Is a 4 letter word around here

 

[ahaley]

It's a moldy yeast condom.

The yeast were smart and used protection

 

[BradleyBrew]

looks like mold from the bottom of a bottle to me.

+1

I bulk clean my bottles about 50 at a time. There is always 1 or 2 or flows floating around the the hot water and oxyclean has "released" from a bottle that was not rinsed.