Infection

[skinnyterror]

Is this infected?? I'm thinking yes....

 

[passedpawn]

If those are big bubbles there fringing the brown krausen, then yes, you need some penicillin. Odd looking one.

 

[skinnyterror]

The bubbles are huddled around a hop bag... I have 2 5 gallon batches of beer in 2 seperate carboys. They are in secondary now. I dry hopped both and only one carboy has the weird white bubbles around the hop bag. It still smells good... If infected is there any way to save it?

 

[passedpawn]

The bubbles are huddled around a hop bag... I have 2 5 gallon batches of beer in 2 seperate carboys. They are in secondary now. I dry hopped both and only one carboy has the weird white bubbles around the hop bag. It still smells good... If infected is there any way to save it?

Yep, it hasn't happened to me but infections from a hop bag are not new here. I don't use them myself.

You're a LOT less likely to have these issues if you stick to a primary only (skip the secondary) and reduce, as much as you can, O2 in the space above the beer.

If it still tastes good, you could bottle now and hope to carbonate it over a couple of weeks. But given that there is an infection, you'll want to keep those bottles refrigerated for their life. Otherwise, you risk gushers, bottle bombs, and further degradation of the flavor of the beer. Good luck.

 

[skinnyterror]

So the beer is ok to drink?? Wont make me sick??

 

[stevehardt]

It will not make you sick. Nothing grows in beer that can make you sick

 

[woozy]

It will not make you sick. Nothing grows in beer that can make you sick

Can I quote you on that?

 

[passedpawn]

So the beer is ok to drink?? Wont make me sick??

No. We make sour beers all the time here (I have a ton of them). When you make a sour beer, you intentionally infect it - which results in a pellicle on the top like you're starting to see there.

Take a look at the following link and remember that all of these beers are going to be drunk.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/pellicle-photo-collection-174033/