Gelatinous worm in my kettle

[mrmekon]

I just boiled a (failed) kettle-sour rye beer, and I found some weird gelatinous worm-shaped thinger at the bottom of the kettle. Anyone know what this is?



Side effect of lactobacillus, or rye, or irish moss? I've definitely never had one of these before.

Recipe: https://beer.trevorbentley.com/doku.php?id=recipes:sur_wars_-_rag_one

 

[eltorrente]

It looks like you dropped a pork rind in your fermenter. If that isn't it, then I don't know what it is - but it looks kind of scary.

 

[AkTom]

It’s cousin to a tequila worm. Put it in a beer. D lish.
Cheers

 

[Kickass]

What'd it taste like? ...the gelatinous worm thing.

 

[ong]

I’m guessing it’s the Irish moss, if it didn’t get broken up and distributed?

 

[mrmekon]

Definitely no pork rinds nearby!

I did not taste it, since the kettle was full of flies from 6 days of souring with insufficient covering. I was slightly concerned that it is a giant lump of insect larvae...

Irish moss kind of makes sense. But I use the real leafy moss, not the tablets, and there was no sign of actual moss in the worm. It looks like a tube of tiny clear balls that are stuck together.

Rye is known for its high glucan content, and I did a protein rest before the souring, so I was really wondering if this is some neat protein output of a high rye grain bill in a low pH environment. Or larvae.