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The spots increased for about a week and a goopy sludge covered the yeast cake. After several weeks I added yeast nutrient. Today I Tested the gravity, it's a little over 1.023. The yeast was fermenting slow ar first, then after I added some nutrient and it went more extreme and seemed to be...

Ok - it was indeed infected. I tasted it and it was sour like spoiled milk- total drain pour!

yes, I tasted the starter, it tasted fine, and thanks for the info-

1. The hops are pellet variety, they were not strained that well, but I have seen hops floating on top of yeast but this looks different and not at all green or leafy. 2. The yeast culture looked and smelled like Chimay during the starter phases, formed a nice white krausen before pitching. 3...

I'm looking for someone to tell me definitively if this is indeed infection of my beer. The yeast is cultured from a Chimay bottle, and seemed healthy and clean when I pitched. Fermentation started going good within 12 hrs but as the wort cooled more a little air probably sucked in through the...

Does this look okay to you? Or are the darker, gunky parts sign of contamination? My yeast was weak and it started slowly- no signs until 2 days, this is day 4.