What's this? Looks like a chunk of brains.

[Incongruent]

I'm 3 weeks into fermenting my lager using w-34 yeast. 3 days ago I brought it up to 70deg temp for a diacetyl rest. I am looking at the fermenter and I see these chunks of brain matter floating around. That's not something I've seen before, but I've only ever seen yeast rafts once before and they didn't look like this.

So what am I dealing with here?

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[GilaMinumBeer]

Break proteins and yeast.

 

[passedpawn]

Break proteins and yeast.

Woah, you ruled out actual brains pretty quickly there chief. Might wanna wait for a recipe.

Pilsner malt gives me some sweet break material like that.

 

[Incongruent]

So should I try and squeeze some of that stuff into the bottle like the worm in the tequila? Or kill it with fire?

 

[Incongruent]

Pilsner malt gives me some sweet break material like that.

It's regular pale malt but I was aiming for a pilsner taste with saaz hops... so maybe it checks out.

 

[Incongruent]

It's regular pale malt but I was aiming for a pilsner taste with saaz hops... so maybe it checks out.

 

[Konadog]

BRAINS!

 

[breckenridge]

I'm a psychiatrist, and that's definitely brains.

 

[Incongruent]

I'm a psychiatrist, and that's definitely brains.

Thanks. So I should eat them and absorb their essence?

 

[Incongruent]

I'm a psychiatrist, and that's definitely brains.

Thanks. So I should eat them and absorb their essence?

 

[passedpawn]

^^ oh crap, a ripple in the matrix [runs off looking for a phone booth]

 

[breckenridge]

Thanks. So I should eat them and absorb their essence?

Feed them to your enemies. Let *them* get kuru.

 

[JonM]

My beer brains just got an academic scholarship at Tufts.

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[passedpawn]

My beer brains just got an academic scholarship at Tufts.

Looks like cheese curds!

Here's a brainy brew I made myself. There were kiwi floating under the krausen there, which gave it the odd surface. Kiwi Witbier.

 

[Incongruent]

Looks like cheese curds!

Here's a brainy brew I made myself. There were kiwi floating under the krausen there, which gave it the odd surface. Kiwi Witbier.

Holy crap. That looks like a Sam Raimi horror movie prop.

 

[passedpawn]

Holy crap. That looks like a Sam Raimi horror movie prop.

It was no prop - yum!

 

[beergolf]

You want brains? Here are some brains....

 

[Incongruent]

Yea... that's gnarly. I never had this until I brewed this lager... and controlled temps to 15C.... Does this happen because of colder fermenting? Or only lagers do this?

 

[beergolf]

Not only lagers. The pic above was a saison I brewed with Czech Pils. It was fermented warm so it is not temp dependent.Clearest beer I ever brewed.