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

[GMRfx]

Ha! That's right off my cell phone. Just picking up light from a hanging lamp above. I considered pulling out the real camera, but my wife was already critizing my impromtu carboy photo shoot... I think the darker beer makes for good light reflection.

All the reflected light from the bubbles in the last pic looks almost too good to be true.

If that is untouched I want a copy. Srs. GMRfx.

 

[Der Fuchs]

Ha! That's right off my cell phone. Just picking up light from a hanging lamp above. I considered pulling out the real camera, but my wife was already critizing my impromtu carboy photo shoot... I think the darker beer makes for good light reflection.

Pm my number to forward it? Please?

 

[GMRfx]

Pm my number to forward it? Please?

sure. I mean, I don't know if it'll be higher res than what I posted (i'm dumb with that stuff), but I'm glad to forward it (or I can take pics with a real camera, if that's what you mean).

 

[More Betterness]

Busted up pellicle after moving the carboy to bottle.. First sour, so does this **** look normal to you folks?

 

[jivex5k1]

Smelled pretty good when I opened it. Transferred some of the culture from the bottom into an attempt at a mead. 5lbs of honey in a gallon of water, hope I transferred enough.

 

[nanobrew1]

Busted up pellicle after moving the carboy to bottle.. First sour, so does this **** look normal to you folks?

Hard to see exactly what is going on it the picture but I wouldn't worry about it too much. The biggest (and almost only) indicator for how a sour is doing is taste. If it taste how you want it to, then it is good to go.

 

[Five28 hz]

Busted up pellicle after moving the carboy to bottle.. First sour, so does this **** look normal to you folks?

It looks a lot like krausen in that picture. What cultures are in it?

 

[More Betterness]

It looks a lot like krausen in that picture. What cultures are in it?

HF Dregs + claussenii. It does Iook a lot like it in that picture, but right before moving it to the table to rack it it was a solid pellicle.

 

[More Betterness]

Hard to see exactly what is going on it the picture but I wouldn't worry about it too much. The biggest (and almost only) indicator for how a sour is doing is taste. If it taste how you want it to, then it is good to go.

Well it was tasting great so I'll stop worrying!

 

[nanobrew1]

Well it was tasting great so I'll stop worrying!

I am guessing you are fine from what you said above.

Side note: The biggest worry I have when bottling is introducing oxygen to the beer, even more so with sours than clean beers. This is because the presence of oxygen with certain bacteria can produce off flavors. Typically these will mellow out, it will just take more time. I typically wait at least a month before opening a bottled sour, typically I feel it is drinking where I want it after 2 months.

 

[More Betterness]

I am guessing you are fine from what you said above.

Side note: The biggest worry I have when bottling is introducing oxygen to the beer, even more so with sours than clean beers. This is because the presence of oxygen with certain bacteria can produce off flavors. Typically these will mellow out, it will just take more time. I typically wait at least a month before opening a bottled sour, typically I feel it is drinking where I want it after 2 months.

Oxygenation was part of my concern with the pellicle disintegrating like that, don't want the **** turning to vinegar. I normally bottle with a beer gun, but didn't want to funk up the bottling equipment.

Hopefully the Brett helps scavenge whatever O2 was introduced while its conditioning.

 

[dimensionx]

I'm calling this one Backyard Blackberry

tosh

 

[tosh1]

I'm calling this one Backyard Blackberry

tosh

Tease. I am so excited for this box.

 

[nanobrew1]

Here are some recent ones.

Red table sour

Berliner Weiss

About to keg my Berliner with passion fruit

 

[liquiddegenerate]

Lacto pellicile popped up in about 15 hours.

 

[Five28 hz]

Waking up a brett culture that was sitting in the fridge for awhile. Formed a pellicle before the starter kicked off and made for the craziest looking pellicle I've seen from any of my cultures.

 

[mjohnson171]

Sour brown in a bourbon barrel

 

[SirDickButts]

My pellicles are boring and not picture worthy

 

[Ziggy]

My pellicles are boring and not picture worthy

wtf, pics or it didn't happen

 

[Pneill3161]

My pellicles are boring and not picture worthy

Introduce some O2 into the headspace

 

[ShawDeuce221]

My pellicles are boring and not picture worthy

We won't judge, we swear...come on, trust us.

 

[GMRfx]

A few new ones from a couple golden sours with ECY bug county & farm. Tried a few different light sources/levels on the second.

 

[SirDickButts]

alright...here's my boring pellicle. LOL

Yeast Bay Sour Farmhouse Ale + Dregs (Jolly Pumpkin/Jester King/Fantome/Blaugies/Cantillon/De Dochter van de Korenaar)

 

[liquiddegenerate]

Pellicile formed in 3 days from the dregs of one CS bottle, potent stuff. Hoping to pull the nose up on a fruited berliner that has some butyric going on.

 

[Snarf1]

has some butyric going on.

 

[liquiddegenerate]

If it's a dumper now, it might not be a dumper in 6 months, possibly. I can spare the carboy for the time being.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

alright...here's my boring pellicle. LOL

Yeast Bay Sour Farmhouse Ale + Dregs (Jolly Pumpkin/Jester King/Fantome/Blaugies/Cantillon/De Dochter van de Korenaar)

I also currently have five fermenters that look exactly like this.

Easier to hit reply than take a picture.

 

[ShawDeuce221]

Hill Farmstead dregs doing work. Wheat beer primary with BrettC and dregs added later.

Rebrew of the above beer has a pretty sick looking pellicle now. As soon as I opened the fermenter to get this picture one of the bubbles popped (direct center of picture). I have an interesting experiment for whatever comes of this beer.

 

[ShawDeuce221]

Woah, 2 in a row

Honey sour the day of bottling

This reminds me of a "boring pellicle"...as SirDickButts would put it.

 

[FTowne1]

Cherries and snot bubbles.