glossy krausen

[kmoo1302]

hi,
Last weekend we did an ahs citrus ipa all grain, did the usual procedure and missed my og by .001 pts!, s/b 1.059, was 1.058. as we were finishing up we decided to try a 2nd running( not sure of the terminology), just to see if it would work, yada,yada,yada... . Ok after the appearance of the krausen on both batches, the orig. looked normal , but the .."LIGHT BEER " was shinny and almost looked like plastic, oh yeah the O.G. on the 2nd was 1.020 and we used about 1000ml of the 2 ltr starter. Any ideas? fermentation on both started in less than 12 hrs.

 

[android]

could be that there's less proteins and other compounds in the second wort which might affect the structure of the krausen... no idea really though.

 

[Walker]

I've seen kraeusen in a lot of forms, and "shiny" is one of them.

I don't specifically know what would cause your two batches to look different, but I wouldn't be worried about it.