Beer out of keg was green/grey

[elgatovolador]

I’m sure I already answered my own question I’m going to ask right now but I still feel the urge to hear someone else say it for some reason...unless I’m wrong about it.

I made two pale ale 5 gal batches for my wedding rehearsal dinner a few weeks ago and the beer was almost finished. I left it at my in-laws for a few weeks but unfortunately the kegarator was unplugged and left outside in the South Carolina coast so the beer got hot (still pressurized).

This weekend I brought it back home and cooled it off and everything and went about pouring a pint but the beer came out very green/grey colored. I tasted it and tasted fine but couldn’t get over the color so I dumped out about 3 full pints and finally the color got to a normal pale ale color. I’m guessing I only have about 5 pints left in each keg...sad face.

I used Whirfloc when brewing and also dry hopped with 2 oz of citra.

I’m guessing that off colored first pours were just hop residue that settled out?

It’s just confusing me bc when I first tapped the keg after letting it carbonate and cold crash for a whole week the first pours were very cloudy but never green/grey colored...

 

[grampamark]

Probably just a typo but-I’m wondering where the other four gallons went if you only have 5 pints left in each keg.

 

[BrewInspector]

Yes. The mysterious loss of beer was the most interesting part of the story for me too.

I suppose the gray green is just hop and sediment that had settled out over time.

 

[FatDragon]

I made two pale ale 5 gal batches for my wedding rehearsal dinner a few weeks ago and the beer was almost finished.

It seems the 'missing' beer may have walked (or perhaps stumbled) off in a variety of directions after the wedding rehearsal dinner it was brewed for...

 

[Pkrd]

If you soon to be inlaws are stealing your beer then yeah, close call, plenty more fish in the sea.

 

[grampamark]

Syntax matters.

I think the OP meant that he made the beer a few weeks ago for his upcoming rehearsal dinner, not that his dinner was a few weeks ago.

 

[FatDragon]

Syntax matters.

I think the OP meant that he made the beer a few weeks ago for his upcoming rehearsal dinner, not that his dinner was a few weeks ago.

It's grammatically ambiguous. Context clues - such as "the beer was almost finished" when it's clearly already kegged (contrast with "the beer was almost ready," which would clearly indicate that it had not been consumed where finished could indicate completion of the fermentation process or the drinking process), and referring to the family as his in-laws instead of future in-laws, not to mention the whole thing about dumping three pints out of a 40 pint vessel and being left with five pints which indicates that the kegs were already pretty close to kicking - are all pretty heavily in favor of the rehearsal dinner being a completed event in the past.

So yes, syntax matters, and in this case it's ambiguous. Context also matters, and in this case it leans pretty distinctly toward one conclusion.

 

[BrewInspector]

Agreeing with the FatDragon on this one.

I went back and read it again and came to the same conclusion.

 

[elgatovolador]

I guess that’s what happens when you post on HBT while nature calls at work...my bad!

Anyways to clear the mud...the beer was indeed consumed at the rehearsal party. All that was left was the small amount of beer that was described to turn green/grey in color. For some reason I thought that you would only get turb in the first pours vs your last pours...

Anyways I must say that it felt pretty rewarding to see people willingly drink my homebrew for the first time without me having to convince them to try my homemade beer.

 

[day_trippr]

Green/grey beer probably explains Solo cups...

 

[Vale71]

I’m guessing that off colored first pours were just hop residue that settled out?

Yep. It's time to work on improving trub separation.