Does This Look Right?

[kyoun1e]

My white IPA is currently in the carboy and has been for 10 days. Went through some furious bubbling early to the point where I had to deal with a blow off top. I'd expect that I'm not moving to bottling for another 10 days due to schedule issues.

My carboy is in a dark basement and in a tub as well so it's hard to see what's going on from the mid point of the carboy down. All I can see really is what's at the top which is what you see attached. I've seen other photos where a carboy almost looks like a multi layered cake. Not sure I see that at all with mine.

Anyways, is this what you'd expect to see here?

Worth disturbing the carboy and lifting it up (and possibly disturbing sentiment at the bottom)?

Thanks

 

[DatsyukianDeke]

Looks like normal yeast (krausen) stuck to the walls, with beer that has coriander seeds floating in it. Nothing out of the ordinary as far as I can tell.

 

[Draken]

Looks like normal yeast (krausen) stuck to the walls, with beer that has coriander seeds floating in it. Nothing out of the ordinary as far as I can tell.

Yeast do some crazy stuff. Unless you start seeing something that looks like a magnified Petri dish it's usually just yeast doing work. There's some great threads on infected beers if you want to see what I'm talking about.

 

[Revvy]

Yeast do some crazy stuff. Unless you start seeing something that looks like a magnified Petri dish it's usually just yeast doing work. There's some great threads on infected beers if you want to see what I'm talking about.

Like Draken said, there really is no abnormal krausen. They all look ugly, and could be utterly different in looks or behavior even with the same wort and same yeast in two different fermenters. If you have a big ugly film, called a pellicule, then that's a different story... but that looks nothing like any krausen.

If you have a krausen of any type... no matter how ugly it may be, not matter how big, or small... then you're fine.

I can't stress this enough to new brewers... switch your default thinking from "Is something wrong?" From the idea that our beer is somehow weak and something can go wrong if we even look at it funny, to "It's really HARD to ruin/infect our beers, so everything is fine- no matter how ugly, stinky it is, or how much it fails to live up to our expectations in terms of time, behavior or whatever."

I really believe if we adopt that as our default, then we worry less, and enjoy the hobby more... The yeast rarely fails us. It's rarely failed us for millenia, even in some pretty primitive places and times, so it's highly unlikely that in the 21st century, with sanitizers, and an understanding of germ theory, and modern, healthy yeast, it's even less likely that something will go wrong.

 

[kyoun1e]

Like Draken said, there really is no abnormal krausen. They all look ugly, and could be utterly different in looks or behavior even with the same wort and same yeast in two different fermenters. If you have a big ugly film, called a pellicule, then that's a different story... but that looks nothing like any krausen.

If you have a krausen of any type... no matter how ugly it may be, not matter how big, or small... then you're fine.

I can't stress this enough to new brewers... switch your default thinking from "Is something wrong?" From the idea that our beer is somehow weak and something can go wrong if we even look at it funny, to "It's really HARD to ruin/infect our beers, so everything is fine- no matter how ugly, stinky it is, or how much it fails to live up to our expectations in terms of time, behavior or whatever."

I really believe if we adopt that as our default, then we worry less, and enjoy the hobby more... The yeast rarely fails us. It's rarely failed us for millenia, even in some pretty primitive places and times, so it's highly unlikely that in the 21st century, with sanitizers, and an understanding of germ theory, and modern, healthy yeast, it's even less likely that something will go wrong.

Working very hard to change my default setting. Think it's going to take a couple of brews though.

 

[Gravity]

This looks super normal.

The answer to both your questions is yes