infection

In today's episode of "Is it infected"? Double IPA. It went 10 days in the primary and was fine. I put it in the secondary and dry hopped 5 days ago. Went to bottle and had this. Tastes normal, but still a little worried. Thoughts?

In the end it happened: after 5 years of homebrewing, my beer got infected. The problem is that I really cannot understand how and why. I am always careful, almost paranoid with cleaning, but this seems a really strange infection. I made 2 batches in parallel, a white IPA and a black IPA...

Hello, I have recently started making mead because of the mead BOMM recipe due to the quick turn around time, however I was not successful in this endeavor and cannot figure out why. I have come here seeking the assistance on the issue in hopes of getting it resolved. Here is the link to the...

I noted for the last two batches of beer some matter floating at the top of my bottled beer (see photo). It appeared 2-3 weeks after bottling. It is in two batches - these batches have 2 things in common. 1 is that I used fizz drops instead of mixed in priming sugar and 2 - I re-used sanitizer...

Last night we bottled a Double IPA (Extract with 6 Lbs Gold, 1 LB DME, 1 LB Corn Sugar) it was hit with lots of hops throughout the boil, including some CITRA LupulN2 Powder. It fermented fine over 3 weeks, Tasted excellent last week when we measured the gravity (1.008). It tasted fantastic and...

What do y'all think of these ciders? I made this way back in the fall. It sort of fell off my radar and never bottled. They're both made with brett (one all brett, the other brett and a more traditional cider yeast). I waited so long to take a look at these that the vodka in my airlock dried up...

I made a 1 gallon batch of a rye stout and it was in secondary between 1 and 2 weeks. At bottling time I was nervous since it had been a while, so I looked for the rest of my yeast packet. I couldn't find it, but was sure it would be fine since it wasn't tooo overly long in secondary in my mind...

Does this look like mold growth to you guys, or am I okay? It smells fine.

Hi everyone, I have a problem and doubt with transferring the post boiling hot wort from my kettle into my fermenter. Here's my story: My kettle does not have a valve where to attach a pvc hose, so my only option is to siphon the wort. The problem is that I tried to firstly do it with a proper...

Hi All - looks like I've made a serious mistake by not stirring the blackberries after I closed the lid on the primary fermentor (I had a towel for the first 5-6 days and was stirring the blackberries 1-2 times a day in that period). It's been 2 days since I last stirred, and I just opened the...

Hi Everybody! I'm fermenting my first batch of cider right now, and ****** up my sanitization in a number of ways. The primary way in which I screwed up was that I felt weird about pouring my fresh apple juice (that I juiced myself!) into containers full of sanitary foam, and accordingly...

Hi I did a Woodefordes Wherry kit on Sunday and it has been bubbling away since. I looked at it this morning and smelt the gas coming out of the airlock and it seemed pretty. good. I just popped in to check it tonight and it stank! It actually smelt a but like rotten eggs although my wife...

I'm about to start my apple mead. Yesterday I mixed everything up for this 3 gallon batch and added 3 SMS campden tablets. After 12 hours I added the pectic enzyme and not it's 12 hours later and time for the yeast. When I opened the bucket there was a bubble looking thing in the center. It...

I was browsing some of the photos in here and I saw someone that posted pix of their brew that they thought was infected. Then I go to move my Belgium Red Ale into 2ndary and I see the same thing. Hovever, after being in the carboy for a week, I think the white-ish substance has fallen. I'm...

I have 3 plastic buckets (2 Coopers + another one thats not a pail). I really like them all since they are easy to transport, easy to clean and 2 of them have spigots. I do not want to throw them out but I am in the process of getting 5 & 6.5 gallon carboys. Here is one kind of "infection"...

The honey wheat I bottled is amazing. The problem is, half of the bottles are good, but the other half taste weird, and just different than the others. I sanitized the bottles, bucket, hoses, caps, boiled the priming sugar, etc. I even used all of the exact same bran new bottles. The good...

I'm about to bottle my Roggenbier and i notice that there is a slight white film over the top of the beer. For this batch I used White Labs Hefewizen IV yeast, which i have never used before. So my question, is this white film from the yeast, or, my fear, a possible infection? Just a side...

I brewed an ordinary bitter 11 days ago. It spent 8 days in the primary and then racked over to the seconday. I did use 1/2 tsp of geletin when moving over to the secondary which I have never done. I heated the 1/2 tsp up in the microwave with 1 cup of water and then allowed it to cool prior...

What will contaminated beer smell like because I fear mine has become infected? Thanks

I brewed up an All-Amarillo IPA two-and-a-half weeks ago, and it was a total S#!T show; forgot to oxygenate, forgot to sanitize the lid, didn't have enough hops bags for all the additions, and ended up having to ferment the whole thing at 62F. Last weekend, I had a brew-mergency, and needed...