Is my beer infected?

[redking11]

I brewed a wheat beer, but when I opened the bucket up for the second time at the end of the second week of primary, the color had changed from light brown wheat color to a dark red. the smell isnt bad, maybe a hint of something unpleasant and it tastes pretty good, maybe a bit to sweet. Gravity is at 1.010 (if I am reading the damn thing right) Any ideas about the color?

 

[redking11]

my gravity might be .001 too. Not sure how to read this thing

 

[jeffd10]

Was it extract, LME, DME, All grain, specialty grains ?

 

[Trophy_Brew21]

It sounds like it is still good, best thing to do it bottle/keg it, and see what happens. No point in pitching it yet. When I did my last beer I though it went bad too, because it tasted nothing like when boiling, smelt kind of weird. But after priming and aging, it turned out great! So hang in there man, it aint over yet!

 

[Trophy_Brew21]

Let the yeast do their job!

 

[BBL_Brewer]

It's changing color becasue the yeast are settling out. Perfectly normal. Definitely not a sign of infection.

 

[redking11]

to answer the first question, it was DME

 

[redking11]

Yeah, I'm guessing the yeast is falling out because the krausen isnt floating on top anymore.

 

[Shooter]

It's not infected...it's CURSED, that is blood man, dump it, dump it NOW!!!!

 

[midfielder5]

I opened the bucket up for the second time at the end of the second week of primary

duuuuude quit f'ing around with it. You are making yourself paranoid and exposing the beer (possibly) to contamination. Take it once at ~day 10 -14.

 

[SouthBay]

duuuuude quit f'ing around with it. You are making yourself paranoid and exposing the beer (possibly) to contamination. Take it once at ~day 10 -14.

+1

 

[redking11]

I'm not messing around with it, I was just moving it to secondary after two weeks in primary. I did one gravity check after week one, I dont think that is messing with it too much is it?

 

[midfielder5]

no reason to secondary a wheat. just bottle that bad boy.

 

[redking11]

good to know

 

[lumpher]

as midfielder said, don't secondary a wheat. 1 of the main characteristics of it is the yeast taste. you secondary it, you lose a lot of yeast, and you lose a lot of what makes a wheat a wheat. primary a wheat for a couple weeks, then bottle/keg it