Post your infection

That looks like a glass carboy with a huge amount of head space, someone with more experience.... Is that to much head space?

 

Yes it is a 5 gal glass carboy with a couple gallons of beer in it, The idea was to see if we could detect a difference between beer that was left in the prikmary for three weeks and beer that was put in a secondary after 1 week. we put half the batch in secondary, and it got contaminated.

 

I bet you'll be able to taste a difference between the two... Experiment: successful!

A secondary should be full to the top if you are going to use one, for reasons you are unfortunately experiencing.

 

Just wanted to toss my cocoa porter in here and get everyone's opinion. I've never had an infection and I think these are just co2 bubbles but here goes anyway.

 

If it has a film and has bubbles that stay and not pop right away, you have an infection. Either lacto or brett. What i can tell.

 

Yup. That's how my lacto infection started.

 

I'm somewhat new to homebrewing. Everything was cool untill I racked this saison into secondary, I went to check on it today and found this weird chuck of what may possibly be mold but im not sure. can anyone identify this for me??

 

Mold should not survive plus it doesn't look green. Might be a bit of kausen that got transfered over.

 

Ok , that does make me feel better. It freaked me out a little because it looks like a fungus or mold. whatever it is it seems almost mushroom like with a strange slimy tail on it.

 

Does it have eyes? It's not a problem until it starts blinking and making eye contact with you.

If it starts to look like this, call NASA and get a gun:

 

^^^ Looks similar to this?
This was a snpa clone I think, The only time I've seen this was when I used Irish moss in the boil. May not have had anything to do with it but, It was a good beer. Definately nothing wrong with all the clumps that were there. I say nothing to worry about

 

Found this today when we went to rack into the keg. Spent about 6 weeks in primary due to a very busy holiday season and being busy at work. Had some friends over 2 weeks ago and they were interested in the homebrew so I popped this same one open very quickly. No infection at that time and it smelled fantastic. Now we have this and it smells distinctly funky. Kegged it anyways, but very frustrating.

 

Beginner. my 1st batch (all grain) looks like this after 4 days, 1st day fermented a lot. Starting with the 2nd or 3rd day it looked like this:


Is it spoiled? The taste isn't great, i cannot decide if it is bitter or sour

If it isn't spoiled, could the fermentation be already done so soon? I see no activity there. Should I put it in bottles?

Thanks!

 

Smell & taste fine.. Racked from underneath and bottled, but wonder if I will have bottle bombs.

I don't think it is, but better safe...

 

Youre fine. Those are just yeast rafts with se
Hops and trub.

 

You might have bottle bombs that looks like krausen to me. How long did you let it ferment in primary before racking?

 

P.S thats not an infection.

 

This is day 14.

I dry hopped on day 5 with 100g pellets loose. Just a bit surprised it hasn't fallen to the bottom...

 

Thanks for answer, could be that fermentation is so soon over (3-4 days)?

 

Aniketos: Not an infection. Leave the beer in the fermentor for 10 days, then bottle. Yes, the active signs of fermentation often end after only a few days. But leave it in the fermentor for 10 days.

Ianflean: Looks OK to me. Sometimes krausen don't fall. I give it a shake a couple of days before I keg so that the krausen falls.

 

What this guy said. I have never seen a krausen like that at 2weeks which is why i asked. 2 weeks should more than likely be enough time to finish most fermentations.

 

Thanks for the re-assurance. It was stable at 1.009 for 5 days, so am interested as to why the krausen didn't fall.
Could it be to do with dry hopping too early? I threw in 100g Cascade pellets on day 5 when the airlock had slowed right down and it was 1.012.

Thanks again!

 

can you please tell me if this is an infection I'm pretty sure it isn't but i want to be certain, its supposed to be a amber ale and its on its 3rd week of fermentation

 

That is beautiful. Did you do it on purpose?

 

looks like the stuff that sticks around after the krausen drops.

 

Thanks I just wanted to make sure I wasn't mistaken and was giving infected beer to relatives.

 

Belgian all grain, OG 1.092 Wyeast 1388 with starter. 4 week primary, 2 weeks in secondary. There is this persistent ring of foam around the carboy neck. Doesn't smell bad, but usually my other beers are completely clear in secondary.
Is this familiar to anyone? Is it still fermenting due to the high gravity?

 

Pretty sure it's just co2 bubbles. I had that on my last beer I racked onto raspberries. Not sure of the explanation for it but I'm pretty sure it's normal.

 

Co2 bubbles for sure.
if that happend on raspberries you racked onto, it would have been from a wee bit of refermentation from the sugars in the raspberries

 

I'm assuming that this will stop eventually and sink out. I don't think I should bottle just yet.

 

your gravity readings will tell the story as far as bottling is concerned.

 

Did you check the gravity before you racked to secondary?

 

That's just left over krausen. When it's at a stable FG,& it's settled out clear or slightly misty,bottle it.

 

I just let it go in primary for 3 weeks or so. I have a hydrometer. I just didn't check. Now I think I need a wine thief to check it in the carboy!

 

My 32nd batch. First time using wlp004. Never seen anything like this after 12 days. It's a Guinness clone. There's what looks like dry yeast floating on top with some kreusen remnants? Or is it infected?

Sample tasted good but not much like Guinness.

 

Looks Ok to me. My current simcoe/columbus IPA looks about the same as this. I think were both fine.

 

Thanks. Almost looks like its starting to spiderweb

 

Looks like it could be the start of a pellicle. But I've had krausen remnants that looked about the same.

 

not a good enough picture to be able to tell what is going on as far as a pellicle is concerned.