Dry Hop

[Tonypr24]

So my first AG was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, I took a sample before I dry hop and a couple of days after dry hop and it was dead on, color and hop flavor everything...I left it longer than the recipe asked for..the recipe called for 5 days of dry hop..after 7 days the beer begin to have a white coating on the surfest of the beer, not thick but a light white coating and the air lock has been bubling a little bit...did I get an infection do you think...should I leave it longer to see if its really an infection?

 

[buzzkill]

sounds like yeast. it will do that.

 

[Brewmasters Warehouse]

The best thing to do at this point is take a gravity reading every day for at least the next 3 days. If hte gravity keeps dropping then keep taking readings until the gravity stops dropping. If your gravity starts to go well below your predicted final gravity then you may have an infection. Nothing to worry about now.

Ed

 

[Tonypr24]

The beer was in the primary for 1 month and in the secondary for 8 days now..I took a gravity reading and it was done...not sure why the yeast would begin fermenting again...

 

[beerkrump]

Rack it from under the foam, being careful not to disturb the coating.