Okay so I have finally gotten what I believe to be my first infection after almost 3 years of brewing, and I don't know what I should do now.
I brewed a lovely ordinary bitter about 5 weeks ago with WLP002, I left it in primary for 3 weeks checked the FG it was spot on 1.013 down from 1.040, so I bottled. The yeast was harvested (unwashed) from primary into 2 sanitized jars, and the beer was bottled with 52 grams of corn sugar for approx 1.5 vols of co2.
A week later one of the jars was pitched into a 1.082 OG Wookey Jack clone. (I am also using the same fermenter the bitter was in, although it was cleaned/sanitized between batches.)
The Wookey has been in primary for 1 week now, and the bitter has been in bottles for 2 weeks.
Monday I put a bottle of the bitter in the fridge and I opened it yesterday after about 24 hours in the fridge. The beer gushed slightly and seemed way more carbonated than the 1.5 vols of co2 I primed for, yet tastes fine. A saison I bottled a week prior and put in the fridge at the same time was still slightly under carbonated and didn't gush at all.
I moved the rest of the batch to the fridge and noticed some of the bottles had a small krausen in them as I was fridging them, and some had the dreaded ring around the neck.
So now I am unsure how to proceed, I am guessing I should replace all my bottling equipment, (tubing, bottling wand, auto siphon, bucket) and the fermenter, but what about the Wookey it still needs to be dry hopped/bottled, and was not cheap to brew, do I bottle the possibly infected Wookey with new equipment?
For all I know the Wookey might be fine but I am paranoid now that it too is going to gush once bottled and I don't want to infect new equipment after I drop all that cash on new siphons/ tubing & such
I brewed a lovely ordinary bitter about 5 weeks ago with WLP002, I left it in primary for 3 weeks checked the FG it was spot on 1.013 down from 1.040, so I bottled. The yeast was harvested (unwashed) from primary into 2 sanitized jars, and the beer was bottled with 52 grams of corn sugar for approx 1.5 vols of co2.
A week later one of the jars was pitched into a 1.082 OG Wookey Jack clone. (I am also using the same fermenter the bitter was in, although it was cleaned/sanitized between batches.)
The Wookey has been in primary for 1 week now, and the bitter has been in bottles for 2 weeks.
Monday I put a bottle of the bitter in the fridge and I opened it yesterday after about 24 hours in the fridge. The beer gushed slightly and seemed way more carbonated than the 1.5 vols of co2 I primed for, yet tastes fine. A saison I bottled a week prior and put in the fridge at the same time was still slightly under carbonated and didn't gush at all.
I moved the rest of the batch to the fridge and noticed some of the bottles had a small krausen in them as I was fridging them, and some had the dreaded ring around the neck.
So now I am unsure how to proceed, I am guessing I should replace all my bottling equipment, (tubing, bottling wand, auto siphon, bucket) and the fermenter, but what about the Wookey it still needs to be dry hopped/bottled, and was not cheap to brew, do I bottle the possibly infected Wookey with new equipment?
For all I know the Wookey might be fine but I am paranoid now that it too is going to gush once bottled and I don't want to infect new equipment after I drop all that cash on new siphons/ tubing & such