nparcel
Member
Hello all.. I don't post much but I have decided this is a good time...
I try not to bottle in clear bottles, but sometimes it is necessary due to lack of green or amber bottles. This brew has been sitting in bottles for about 3 or 4 months in a room that we kind of forget about sometimes, and the temperature ranges from 60's to high 80's (it was not fermented in this room, it only serves as storage).
I would check the bottom of the bottles from time to time to see how they were coming along, that is when I noticed a thin layer on the bottom in addition to 3 or 4 large clumps that had formed. I am not sure what an infection looks like so I am not able to tell if this is or is not infected. Does the exposure to light cause these clumps or the temperature range or is it just wierd yeast activity? Also, I had a few green bottles and they do not show signs of these clumps, only a nice thin layer of yeast on the bottle.
I tried searching the web for yeast clumps, yeast bumps and yeast lumps in beer bottles, which most of them led me to several different STD diagnosis sites which I found rather amusing..
I try not to bottle in clear bottles, but sometimes it is necessary due to lack of green or amber bottles. This brew has been sitting in bottles for about 3 or 4 months in a room that we kind of forget about sometimes, and the temperature ranges from 60's to high 80's (it was not fermented in this room, it only serves as storage).
I would check the bottom of the bottles from time to time to see how they were coming along, that is when I noticed a thin layer on the bottom in addition to 3 or 4 large clumps that had formed. I am not sure what an infection looks like so I am not able to tell if this is or is not infected. Does the exposure to light cause these clumps or the temperature range or is it just wierd yeast activity? Also, I had a few green bottles and they do not show signs of these clumps, only a nice thin layer of yeast on the bottle.
I tried searching the web for yeast clumps, yeast bumps and yeast lumps in beer bottles, which most of them led me to several different STD diagnosis sites which I found rather amusing..