Infection?

[jackson101]

Brewed this beer on Saturday. Started fermentation in about 6 hrs. Then had a krausen for about 24 hrs and then dropped out. Left town for a day to see this.
The yeast I used was White Labs witbread 2 ale yeast wlp017.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks


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[CBMbrewer]

Likes like krausen to me. Any idea if there was temperature fluctuation while you were gone? Take a gravity reading and smell/taste.

 

[Fermented_minds]

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Brewed this beer on Saturday. Started fermentation in about 6 hrs. Then had a krausen for about 24 hrs and then dropped out. Left town for a day to see this.
The yeast I used was White Labs witbread 2 ale yeast wlp017.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks


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Absolutely looking good! Not an infection, just a nice krausen. Worry not!

 

[jackson101]

Likes like krausen to me. Any idea if there was temperature fluctuation while you were gone? Take a gravity reading and smell/taste.

The temp did jump up few degrees while I was gone. I have got it back down now.


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[jackson101]

Absolutely looking good! Not an infection, just a nice krausen. Worry not!

That is what I thought but have never seen the krausen drop out then form back again.


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[CBMbrewer]

That is what I thought but have never seen the krausen drop out then form back again.

That's the only thing that is odd about it. I would bet the yeast began to floculate a little prematurely in this case probably due to temp since it seems they have started back up again when the temp jumped up while you were gone.

 

[bestbuds]

The Whitbread 'strain' is actually a blend. What you're seeing could be reasonably explained as one strain growing and fermenting quickly, then the subsequent growth and fermentation of another, slower-growing strain.

 

[jackson101]

The Whitbread 'strain' is actually a blend. What you're seeing could be reasonably explained as one strain growing and fermenting quickly, then the subsequent growth and fermentation of another, slower-growing strain.

Ok that makes since. Thanks for all the feed back.


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