Infected? First time issue.

[Coookies58]

So this is my first brewing issue. I can’t tell if this is infected. It’s the first brew that didn’t smell great coming out. This is an esb fermented with London Danstar. It stalled at 1.020 as many complain about. It’s gone for 2 weeks. Also smells as little acidic.

 

[flars]

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So this is my first brewing issue. I can’t tell if this is infected. It’s the first brew that didn’t smell great coming out. This is an esb fermented with London Danstar. It stalled at 1.020 as many complain about. It’s gone for 2 weeks. Also smells as little acidic.

Doesn't look infected. Just some yeast rafts fallen from the dried krausen ring. If you used Windsor yeast it didn't stall. That's about the normal stopping point for Windsor yeast and some other English strains.

 

[Coookies58]

Thanks. Any thoughts on the acidic/ cider smell?

 

[Keith81]

Before I started controlling fermentation temp many of my batches smelled like cider, some even tasted cidery on bottling day but after 3 weeks at room in the bottles to carbonate it usually went away.

 

[IslandLizard]

Looks fine to me too, have you tasted it yet?
It's still young, uncarbonated beer, so it may not taste right yet, but enough to evaluate and give you plenty of feedback what to expect.

Now, since you've opened it up, you do need to do something with it, soon, like packaging.
It looks like you started racking it already.

 

[Coookies58]

Thanks everyone. Yes, I bottled it today. Stashed it in a Tupperware just in case. We will see how it turns out in a couple weeks. Hopefully it turns out ok, the wife loves ESB.

 

[Dcioni]

Doesnt really look like infection.... I guess give it some time and see how it goes.