I'll show you mine if you show me yours (pellicles)

[RayP]

After looking through this entire thread you guys really have me wanting to get into home brewing... Really, really cool pictures.

 

[Skittle34]

Year old (today, actually) turbid mash pseudo-lambic using bug county:

Barely a layer. Tastes fantastic right now. Will fruit 5 gallons of it this summer when the fruits are at their peak around here. Not sure if using sour cherries, raspberries or apricots.

Always hard to tell, but what's the base beer? I feel like if it the beer is lighter apricots would be awesome in this case

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Always hard to tell, but what's the base beer? I feel like if it the beer is lighter apricots would be awesome in this case

Uhh, turbid mash lambic.

 

[justforrazors]

Turbid mash "lambic" with bugfarm, bugcounty and dregs of a 1989 de neve gueuze. Brewed September 13th. Interestingly enough, the beer was a split batch and another carboy got the bug farm/county mix too, but dregs from hommage, fou and a and t. Absolutely no pellicle at all on that one.

The sister carboy to this one finally developed a pellicle about a month ago. Looking very lacto forward. Picture from tonight.

 

[Vogt52]

After looking through this entire thread you guys really have me wanting to get into home brewing... Really, really cool pictures.

Take the plunge man! Such a great hobby

 

[dimensionx]

Pretty sure that I have "liked" every post in this thread. Time to add some shots of my own.

Yarrow wild ale, mixed fermentation with De Garde dregs. Maybe like, 4 months or so old. Smells great but waiting to try it for another month or so.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Pretty sure that I have "liked" every post in this thread. Time to add some shots of my own.

Yarrow wild ale, mixed fermentation with De Garde dregs. Maybe like, 4 months or so old. Smells great but waiting to try it for another month or so.

You forgot to tag degardebrewing. Ill help a brother out!

 

[RVoigt89]

Gnarly looking bastard seen while sampling one of my Wild Ales that is in a Speidel HDPE fermentor. It's at 10 months and I really expected this to be a dumped because of the oxygen exposure, but damn if it isn't one of the better beers I have going at the moment.

 

[lopejuice1]

Dear god. I hope you're up to date on all your vaccines.

 

[FTowne1]

Gnarly looking bastard seen while sampling one of my Wild Ales that is in a Speidel HDPE fermentor. It's at 10 months and I really expected this to be a dumped because of the oxygen exposure, but damn if it isn't one of the better beers I have going at the moment.

Please post this in the "Stoned Post Only" thread. If feel like I'm tripping balls when I stare at that. I see faces and ****.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Please post this in the "Stoned Post Only" thread. If feel like I'm tripping balls when I stare at that. I see faces and ****.

That mucus looking glob inthe upper left is REALLY interesting looking! The rest looks like shaving cream. Unlike any pellicle I've ever seen...

 

[FTowne1]

That mucus looking glob inthe upper left is REALLY interesting looking! The rest looks like shaving cream. Unlike any pellicle I've ever seen...

The area from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock looks like a face and a skeleton hand that are engulfed in flames. I can't stop staring at it.

 

[RVoigt89]

Beerontwowheels that "mucus" glob is actually some of the beer that broke through the pellicle when I removed the bung. I tried my best not to disturb it, but a little got through. The Speidel bungs can be a bitch.

 

[Beerontwowheels]

Beerontwowheels that "mucus" glob is actually some of the beer that broke through the pellicle when I removed the bung. I tried my best not to disturb it, but a little got through. The Speidel bungs can be a bitch.

Is it pedio sick? That looks like some ropey ****....

 

[RVoigt89]

Actually no, no ropiness or viscosity to speak of. I think it's just the way the beer is sitting on the pellicle.

 

[dimensionx]

Gnarly looking bastard seen while sampling one of my Wild Ales that is in a Speidel HDPE fermentor. It's at 10 months and I really expected this to be a dumped because of the oxygen exposure, but damn if it isn't one of the better beers I have going at the moment.

That is ******* terrifying. Please call it Toxie.

 

[GMRfx]

dgthrasher , myself and a couple other guys filled a 55g barrel maybe a year ago. Just pulled off the first 5 gallons (tasting nice) and topped off. A little pellicle porn:

 

[YellowBird1]

Berliner with Brett, wasn't expecting a pellicle.

 

[drgarage1]

Berliner with Brett, wasn't expecting a pellicle.

Looks like antarctica.

 

[ShawDeuce221]

Transferred a BrettC primary Grisette I brewed last month into secondary and tossed in the oak cubes from this beer and a nicey pellicle formed 2 days later. Might do a stakem progress picture gallery as this pellicle grows/forms.

 

[YellowBird1]

 

[ShawDeuce221]

Question/discussion topic:

Pictures like the one YellowBird just posted (post #111) with his pellicle thick and bubble-y, does that pretty much mean there is still CO2 being produced under the pellicle? While pictures like mine (post #110) and YellowBird's previous picture (post #108) are completely fermented with little to no CO2 being produced.

 

[Pneill3161]

Question/discussion topic:

Pictures like the one YellowBird just posted (post #111) with his pellicle thick and bubble-y, does that pretty much mean there is still CO2 being produced under the pellicle? While pictures like mine (post #110) and YellowBird's previous picture (post #108) are completely fermented with little to no CO2 being produced.

Your post said yours formed within 2 days. My bubbles take months to form.

 

[ShawDeuce221]

Your post said yours formed within 2 days. My bubbles take months to form.

Correct, it was more of a general statement and a question as to what the bubbles actually mean. That beer was transferred at 1.001 so if there is any fermentation left I would assume no bubbles will form, presuming bubbles = CO2

 

[Pneill3161]

Correct, it was more of a general statement and a question as to what the bubbles actually mean. That beer was transferred at 1.001 so if there is any fermentation left I would assume no bubbles will form, presuming bubbles = CO2

Yeah that's kinda how I see it too, mine stay in primary the entire time so it gives my bubbles more time/sugars to form.

 

[YellowBird1]

More oxygen introduced equals a thicker/crispier pellicle. Not necessarily something you should strive for!

 

[rcubed1]

I have several fermenters of feral beer that don't have a pellicle and are getting close to a year old. Last time I sampled them they were tasting good. I'm actually proud of that they don't have a pellicle.

 

[Snarf1]

I have several fermenters of feral beer that don't have a pellicle and are getting close to a year old. Last time I sampled them they were tasting good. I'm actually proud of that they don't have a pellicle.

That's funny. I've had a few that were pellicle free and then after sticking a thief in them, boom! A couple days later one formed.

Added dry hops to a beer that had a pellicle this week. Should have got pics before I moved it to cold crash, but too late. Imagine standard snot bubble / powder moonscape, but green.

 

[rcubed1]

That's funny. I've had a few that were pellicle free and then after sticking a thief in them, boom! A couple days later one formed.

Added dry hops to a beer that had a pellicle this week. Should have got pics before I moved it to cold crash, but too late. Imagine standard snot bubble / powder moonscape, but green.

Yeah, I'm guessing that will happen to me next time I thief a sample but I'll try my best to put down a good blanket of CO2. But that's the price you have to pay sometimes to figure out how that carboy is going to work in a blend.

 

[RVoigt89]

Nice looking pellicle on a lambic based mixed culture. WLP550+Brett C+Cantillon/3F cultures.