My first infection? (pic)

[landhoney]

Landhoney that looks disgusting. Do you just rack off the bottom?

NO!, I want the pellicle to remain intact. I just pushed a pipette through to take a sample and it tasted really good, nice and sour funk. My pellicle is Brett looking for O2, I want/need it there to provide the flavor and protect from oxidation and acetobacter. It will be there for the many months sour beers need to develop.
BTW, if you brew a sour beer and there is no pellicle it doesn't mean the 'bugs' aren't working, just that there's limited O2 in the headspace so the Brett isn't 'going nuts' on the surface. If there's not O2 then you don't need the pellicle to protect from oxidation/aceto any way. But the Brett character in the beer may be more restrained(maybe not).

 

[z987k]

well I doubt you pour the beers with a fuzzy head like that, what do you do when it's time to bottle/keg?

MMMM hop vodka!

 

[Dude]

That sure looks like a lacto infection to me. The only hope is to sour it intentionally, or carb it up and drink it very fast.

 

[uglygoat]

mines had that skin on it for months. i just covered it and put it in the corner of the cellar. i kinda forgot about it, until i saw flani's post.

i'm gonna taste it tonight, and if it's palatable, it's going in a keg, to test out the new keg setup. i figure i won't cry too much if i loose alot of beer troubleshooting my first keging...

 

[BierMuncher]

Looks like your yeast metabolized much the way the SWMBO metabolizes every 28 days.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Lacto would actually be welcome in this brew. I can only hope.

 

[shaggynuts24]

i have been trying to remember that word for 3 days now "pellicle"

saw a post 3 days ago "its not heavy, its my pellicle" something like and i have been beating my brains out about it trying to figure out what the crap that stuff is.....


thanks

 

[CodeRage]

I wonder if subjecting hops to ozone for a few hours would be enough to sanitize. A neon sign transformer, some aluminum foil and a sheet of glass and you're ozonin

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Well, it's been a couple days and nothings grown in secondary. So far so good.

 

[z987k]

I wonder if subjecting hops to ozone for a few hours would be enough to sanitize. A neon sign transformer, some aluminum foil and a sheet of glass and you're ozonin

Hope you do that outside.

 

[landhoney]

i have been trying to remember that word for 3 days now "pellicle"
saw a post 3 days ago "its not heavy, its my pellicle" something like and i have been beating my brains out about it trying to figure out what the crap that stuff is.....
thanks

It's our pal Brett

 

[Schlenkerla]

>Anyone out there have a way of sanitizing hops without destroying the
>aroma?

I read in brewing for dummies that you can lightly steam them like you would broccoli in a pot w/ a false bottom type strainer. One with sides that fold up once inside the pot. Wal-mart sells them in the kitchen area.

Out of fear of contamination I heavily hop at flame-out. Then move it all to a brew bucket and the leave the hops float around in the wort. I'll let it run its course then rack to a bottling bucket or secondary.

I'm drinking my ******-amber w/ an ounce and a half of whole-leaf home grown cascades at flame-out. No infections to worry about and lots of hop flavor. Dubbed it ****** because I opted for the carboy over the brew bucket. The hops plugged up the carboy neck. Got lucky - no accidents. Next batch will be done in the bucket.