Introduction / What are the things floating in my secondary?

[JuniperHill]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the site. After coming back to homebrewing now that I have the space for it. Seeing as I was constantly searching questions on the site, I thought it would be a good idea to join up.

I'm onto my second batch of beer--first went really well and has another week or so of bottle conditioning. The second has been in secondary for one week now. It's a saison extract kit that had an OG of 1.055 and a FG of 1.010, but there are a lot of chunks floating in it. I read somewhere that they might be protein or yeast gloms, and I just wanted to make sure. Looks like CO2 is making them rise and sink. I didn't use any Irish moss in the recipe. Here are some pictures:

There are a lot of them, mostly around the outside of the carboy, but I'm not particularly worried, just curious. Nothing seems fluffy or larger than the tip of a pen. Airlock is still bubbling once a minute or so. What do you think?

- Adam

 

[unionrdr]

That wet popcorn lookin' stuff is likely just coagulated proteins known as " cold break". The rest is just residual krausen.

 

[Homercidal]

Did your Saison come with coriander seeds?

Cause those things look like seeds.

Sometimes yeast can ball up kind of like that too.

 

[JuniperHill]

No coriander in this kit--but it does look exactly like that.

 

[Queequeg]

if you used leaf hop they can be seeds from the hops

 

[JuniperHill]

Pellet hops unfortunately. I may take a thief, try to get one of the balls, and see if it's soft or not, or if it looks like yeast balled up. Again, I'm not concerned, only curious.

 

[Queequeg]

its probably yeast floaties then, you get them quite a lot in real ale styles here in the uk, if so they will settle out

 

[Sailingeric]

Looks bad, better send the bottles for testing

 

[Brew_G]

Pellet hops unfortunately. I may take a thief, try to get one of the balls, and see if it's soft or not, or if it looks like yeast balled up. Again, I'm not concerned, only curious.

Don't.

There's no need to mess with your beer, and the more you do, the more chance of introducing an infection.

 

[zam216]

Just let it be the big thing is there is no sign of infection. They do look like yeast though. You will learn that different yeast strains act and look different while fermenting so things like that will look normal with experience.