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what does and infected brew smell/taste like? is it just sour?

also.. SG was 1.020 when we transferred to the secondary and air lock started bubbling again but has stopped now.

the red stuff is the cocoa nibs. they never sank to the bottom. i did a quick search online about adding cocoa nibs and it was almost 50/50 regarding sanitizing. I guess i probably should have sanitize first. I'm going to taste it next week if it doesn't look any worse.

So i think my latest brew maybe infected. It's a chocolate stout extract kit we picked up at our local homebrew store. Malts & Specialty Grains - 3 lbs. Amber DME - 3 lbs. Dark DME - 8 oz. Crystal 120L - 4 oz. Crystal 80L - 4 oz. Black Malt - 8 oz. Chocolate Malt Hops - 2 oz. Fuggle...

i did topped off.. haha Filled it to the 5 gallon mark on the side of the bucket with store bought bottle water. i think i dodged a bullet this time. It seems like they'll be okay if keep them cold and the yeast dormant..

Again thanks for all the input. I'm learning so much. So i opened up a couple of bottles and no beer geysers. Plenty of carbonation though so i put them all in the fridge. I also vented the growlers and put them in the fridge. The beer actually taste pretty good. I hope that in a few weeks...

Thanks everyone for all your replies. I really wished i found this forum before i started this brew. lesson learned the hard way.. :(

Thanks for all the replies.. This has really been a good learning experience.. i never knew brewing beer could be dangerous.. haha I'm going to head over to my cousins at lunch today and put the growlers into a plastic bin. They're sitting in his living room now. Do you think its a good idea...

Thanks for the reply! Yeah big mistake. :( I'm going to do a lot more reading before my next batch. I had a pretty big kettle so i was able to do the boil with 3 gallons of water. I kept it at a pretty fast boil for the entire hour. I'm not sure if this affects it. I did use all 5oz of the...

I'm new to brewing and should've read up some more before I started my first brew. Anyways. I think I bottled to early and now I'm worried that I just created 2 cases of bottle bombs. This was a 5 gallon amber ale kit from Midwest supplies that's came with a dry yeast pack. Firmentation...