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dbkdev

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I know, another person with another infection question. It's a pliny clone been in primary for 10 days, just opened to take a first gravity reading, hit target gravity. Is this an infection, or leftover krausen/yeast?

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Also I was going to cold crash it in another 2 days. Does cold crashing cause infections to "drop" or just yeast? Could be an easy way to tell.
 

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Not sure what you mean by "dropping" an infection. You're not going to remove a biologically active entity just by chilling its ass ;)

Assuming you take a couple of successive SG readings and have convinced yourself the yeast are done cleaning up after themselves, a solid crash will drop a heck of a lot of debris. But it's not going to kill an infection.

Fortunately, I don't think you're looking at an infection. Yet...

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Yeah. I was thinking yeast rafts till I noticed the broken ice pack patterns. Might be the start of something...
 
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