Do I have an infection :(

[tcbucher]

I brewed an APA

Denny's Favorite 50
Racked to secondary
Added Hop bag (sanitized)

5 Days later, I have this.

Have not taken a gravity reading

Doesn't smell too bad out of the airlock. (I have a better bottle, so light pressure pushed air from the bottle)

(IMGUR album)

http://imgur.com/a/1IgmY#p1q58

 

[unionrdr]

"Damnit! Which one of you kids is dumping chips in my carboy again?!" Looks like major yeast rafts to me.

 

[tcbucher]

In secondary once Calculated terminal Gravity was reached?

 

[tcbucher]

This would be wonderful news, assuming its my Denny's Favorite 50...

 

[unionrdr]

Infections don't look like that that I've ever seen.

 

[Yooper]

That doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before. I can't tell you what it is, sorry! Hopefully the beer is ok and not infected. I just can't tell.

 

[tcbucher]

They have depth, some have chunks below the surface. Kind of like icebergs. I'm still pretty new at this but it was a serious WTF moment when I saw those.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,the chunks could be the protein "wet popcorn" I've seen before,with yeast floaters on them.

 

[LVBen]

it was a serious wtf moment when i saw those.

+1

 

[tcbucher]

Would it be, in your opinion, a good idea to take a gravity sample, crash, and bottle ASAP at this point?

 

[LVBen]

I brewed an APA

Denny's Favorite 50
Racked to secondary
Added Hop bag (sanitized)

5 Days later, I have this.

Have not taken a gravity reading

Doesn't smell too bad out of the airlock. (I have a better bottle, so light pressure pushed air from the bottle)

Are you sure your better bottle didn't have a layer of something at the bottom when you racked to it?

 

[tcbucher]

Yeah, I always PBW, shake, rinse, star-san, and invert my BBs after their use.

I re-star-san'd it before use...nothing it in.

When i took the gravity reading before racking it tasted fine, good actually. I got ahold of some citra hops for this one. 3 oz. :/

 

[phenry]

If it tastes good then I doubt it's infected. I would just let it keep on keepin' on for another two weeks and then bottle.

 

[tcbucher]

Update time....at this point with the mass of nasty gunk resting peacefully in my carboy, my gravity has held stable at 1.019 and it tastes AMAZING. The 7oz of hops in this mother taste delicious. Good sign for now, lets hope it makes it another week when i plan to bottle.....

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

I have never seen anything remotely close to that.

 

[tcbucher]

This may sound completely ignorant, but...

My airlock had a lot of vodka in it...could it be enough to pressurize residual co2 coming off enough to pressurize the container and send the trub/yeast/what not jettisoning to the top?


I ask because i bumped one of the clumps with my thief, and the sucker disintegrated and went into solution?

EDIT: I mean, it looks, at least theoretically, like the hard, angular splits from the chunks could have been where trub fractured. It was the first time I looked at it in 24 hours, and, to my knowledge, it hadn't been bumped.

 

[JoeDaddio]

Dude, that is gnarly looking. Awesome.


joe

 

[unionrdr]

This may sound completely ignorant, but...

My airlock had a lot of vodka in it...could it be enough to pressurize residual co2 coming off enough to pressurize the container and send the trub/yeast/what not jettisoning to the top?


I ask because i bumped one of the clumps with my thief, and the sucker disintegrated and went into solution?

EDIT: I mean, it looks, at least theoretically, like the hard, angular splits from the chunks could have been where trub fractured. It was the first time I looked at it in 24 hours, and, to my knowledge, it hadn't been bumped.

No,the vodka has a lower SG than the fermenting liquid or even water. I use it all the time,no worries. Even captain Morgan's rum works in a pinch.