TREMBLE
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Well I think the title may just about say it all.
Bottle conditioning a pale ale, been in the bottle about 3 weeks. Lifted one out to put in the fridge to try it and its got mold in the bottle! Lots of tiny spots floating throughout the bottle, had a good check throughout the batch and it appears the whole damn lot is contaminated! My christmas beer is gone!
After drying my tears and finally finished swearing I thought I had better check my brew that should be ready for new year, this is a pilsner and is my first brew boiling ingredients, all my other beers have been pre-hopped extract kits, it has been in the bottle for 2 weeks and I was expecting it to be cleared and maybe ready for a early taste - wrong! All the bottles are very cloudy, as in just like when I bottled them, not really cleared at all, there is also some floating stuff that looks worryingly like it may be mould as well! Queue more tears and swearing!
Well, guess I have a few question, if both whole batches have mould it cant be my bottle sterilisation that messed up can it? I am pretty strict with it and never had a problem in the past. I would have expected maybe a few bottles with mould but not everyone if I failed to sterilise correctly.
I used dry malt extract to prime the pilsner(boiled in 2 cups water) does it take longer for this to clear than the normal brewing sugar I have used in the past?
I use a bucket as my primary, its got a lid but not airlocked, secondary is airlocked, then reuse bucket to prime/bottle from. If good active fermentation takes place(as it did) does that not mean I should have been fairly safe from contamination?
Thanks for any advice, feeling pretty depressed right now!
Bottle conditioning a pale ale, been in the bottle about 3 weeks. Lifted one out to put in the fridge to try it and its got mold in the bottle! Lots of tiny spots floating throughout the bottle, had a good check throughout the batch and it appears the whole damn lot is contaminated! My christmas beer is gone!
After drying my tears and finally finished swearing I thought I had better check my brew that should be ready for new year, this is a pilsner and is my first brew boiling ingredients, all my other beers have been pre-hopped extract kits, it has been in the bottle for 2 weeks and I was expecting it to be cleared and maybe ready for a early taste - wrong! All the bottles are very cloudy, as in just like when I bottled them, not really cleared at all, there is also some floating stuff that looks worryingly like it may be mould as well! Queue more tears and swearing!
Well, guess I have a few question, if both whole batches have mould it cant be my bottle sterilisation that messed up can it? I am pretty strict with it and never had a problem in the past. I would have expected maybe a few bottles with mould but not everyone if I failed to sterilise correctly.
I used dry malt extract to prime the pilsner(boiled in 2 cups water) does it take longer for this to clear than the normal brewing sugar I have used in the past?
I use a bucket as my primary, its got a lid but not airlocked, secondary is airlocked, then reuse bucket to prime/bottle from. If good active fermentation takes place(as it did) does that not mean I should have been fairly safe from contamination?
Thanks for any advice, feeling pretty depressed right now!