Creamy Krausen

[Djaniefer]

Is this here cream ale's krausen too creamy? Are we infected?!

 

[njohnsoncs]

Too creamy? Looks fine to me. The green stuff is probably hop residue.

 

[Djaniefer]

Too creamy? Looks fine to me. The green stuff is probably hop residue.

See the white stuff at the neck and up to the top of the bottle? Is that all good too? I'm probably being paranoid lol. Only my second batch!

 

[njohnsoncs]

That just looks like krausen to me.

 

[65C]

completely normal - sometimes it goes right up the blow off pipe and you get an inch of yeast in your blow off container

it's important to keep temps in range at this stage I find (I go for about 17C for first 3 days) - getting it too warm is one of the only brewing issues I've had, also keep away from sunlight - use a towel if not in a dark room

looks great

 

[65C]

also I think you have to go quite far to infect beer - if you keep things reasonably clean and don't do anything daft

most of the infections I've seen some fruit for secondary or something else was added or the person knows they did something quirky - it takes a powerful force to work against a yeast in my experience (mostly with bread, but not had an infected brew yet)

 

[Djaniefer]

Thanks guys! I'm proud of this batch. It's the only one I've made that I didn't have to top off with tap water, and the second one that I've made without a kit holding my hand. This is all of my own calculations so I've been nervous on how it'll turn out! Appreciate the feed back . It's sitting at a cool 72 F.