Green witbier?

[Horn024]

Brewed a batch of wit 2 weeks ago. It has a green tint to it, is that normal?

 

[scinerd3000]

haha what grain did you use? If its still in the fermentor which I'm assuming it is, occasionally they tend to refract slightly green....The final product shouldn't be and if it is then something is probably wrong...at this stage i would say your fine.

 

[Horn024]

Used NB all-grain kit and a hop bag. Kinda odd looking. I did a fg and it's done fermenting yet it's been in the primary little under 2 weeks. Should I put it in a seconday?

 

[scinerd3000]

a secondary is really only needed if your adding fruit, dryhops or doing a huge high alcohol beer. I usually leave my beers in primary for 3-4 weeks and then bottle. The yeast even though your final gravity is reached will still be cleaning up different waste compounds they throw off into the beer at fermentation so give them a week or so and then bottle- you should be golden.

A picture would help if your able to post one but most likely your fine and the color just seems off. Things look different during fermentation then they do in the bottle or glass. If it's actually green, it would be something i haven't ever seen before! Kinda cool though

 

[unionrdr]

I've heard of green beer before,but wow. I wonder if the hop sacks still had some green tint to them when you chucked them in?

 

[gratefuldisc]

idk about the green color... but for a wit I would definitely not secondary. My wits are crazy fast (wyeast 3944) and the style is best young. I have been grain to glass in 10 days before when kegging. even when I bottle conditioned, with that yeast, they would carb up in less than a week. if your gravity readings say it's done, I say roll with it.

 

[BenjaminBier]

in my experience green is good - it is the hue a very pale white beer takes on in the fermenter. to me it looks like ghostly greenish zombie skin. okay, maybe that's not the best sales pitch ever, but the result is a lovely whitish witbier. Sounds like you're all good, dude.