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Extreme Floaties 3 weeks after bottling???

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BadWolf999

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First hello, as I am new on here. I'm fairly new on the brewing scene but have been creating some tasty beers for a few years now. This is the first batch I have ever had a problem with. I have used fruit in other beers and have never seen this. (Though I guess those fruits were low in pectin) This was a Short's Soft Parade type beer with loads of fruit in it. I also did a bit of dry hopping. When I bottled it it was clear and normal. After a week in the bottles it was great, still clear, not much sedimentation, fruity, tasty.

Well, three weeks later...all hell has broke loose. Most of the beer is sediment/floaties now. Where did it all come from? Is it infected? My whole bottled batch is now like this.

I was wondering if this has ever happened to anyone else?

Is this just pectin from cooking the fruit before adding it to the secondary?

I am so confused as to where all this gunk suddenly came from, unless it is yeast related or infected. It was fine after a week in the bottle.

It still tastes the same, no weird or noticeable "off" flavors that I can tell...

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!!

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Did you happen to notice which bottles you filled first/last? It could be that some of the bottles have had this level of sediment all along and you just happened to open some of the cleaner ones earlier.
 
Looks like yeast. Some what like WY 1968. Did you primary long enough to have a compact yeast cake in the fermentor before racking to the bottling bucket?
 
No the bottles are not over carbonated. The beer sat in primary and then secondary for quite a while...long enough that I thought about adding new yeast to bottling... but did not end up doing that. This is not sedimentation from the yeast from the carboy/bottling bucket....this happened and grew two weeks after being bottled... Its so weird haha.
 

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