dark spots in my bottles.

[muthafuggle]

I have a Belgian Heavy that spend a combined 5 weeks in primary and secondary. I fined with gelatin and bottled a week later.

I was in the basement giving the bottles a turn and noticed that they all seem to have tiny, tiny dark floaties clinging to the sides of the bottles on the bottom 2/3. When I shook the bottles, it looked like clouds of dark crap coming from the depths of the bottles and bigger floaties rose to the surface on a few of them. I tried to search this one, but maybe I'm describing it wrong.

Infection city, population: Me -or Relax with a homebrew?

 

[gtpro]

thats yeast, you're fine

 

[Elshauno]

It could just be trub from the secondary, how do they taste? How does it smell? Try one every month and age the rest. It should settle out.

 

[muthafuggle]

The bottles were infected -most of them anyway... The bottles poured nice, tall glasses of foam that would hang around for about 5 minutes. I could almost float a penny on that crap.

With enough patience, the beer was drinkable, but wasn't great. No burst bottles, thank god. The good news is that 6+ batches later (all-grain now, that was my last XME batch) I haven't had an infection in the bunch and the beer keeps improving.

 

[smokinghole]

Funny this post was up. I had a grolsch bottle of witbier do that to me last night. Only one though and whatever was in the bottle was a ***** to clean out. I might have done a shoddy cleaning job and then bottled with crap still in the bottle.