jtakacs
Well-Known Member
checked on my beer today and my blonde ale that is fermented with WLP001 and is being dry hopped in a bag has a pellicle across the top. very stable and growing and i'm not sure why. it shouldn't have one short of contamination (it is an extended dry hop - its been 10 days and was supposed to come out today but now i'm thinking the batch is toast)
the hops are definitely the source as i split this batch and one has the bag of hops and one doesn't. everything sterilization wise is the same.
so it got me thinking; why has a pellicle formed? clearly something isn't right and i'm not ready to dump the batch yet, but any insight into why a pellicle forms? to keep O2 out i assume...
and can pellicles form in non-funked beer with normal sacc strains or is this clear contamination?
the hops are definitely the source as i split this batch and one has the bag of hops and one doesn't. everything sterilization wise is the same.
so it got me thinking; why has a pellicle formed? clearly something isn't right and i'm not ready to dump the batch yet, but any insight into why a pellicle forms? to keep O2 out i assume...
and can pellicles form in non-funked beer with normal sacc strains or is this clear contamination?