Pellicle Photo Collection

[coyote68]

Solera # 3.. Bug County 2013.


Petrus Pale clone 18 months. (lots of various dregs built up)

 

[coyote68]

it's check my sours day..
RU 55 clone with ECY 20 and Commercial Suicide dregs.
(6 months)

 

[Agate]

Berliner weiss pellicle with brett/lacto...
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Orval dregs pale ale...
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[user 204491]

it's check my sours day..
RU 55 clone with ECY 20 and Commercial Suicide dregs.
(6 months)
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Would you mind sharing your RU-55 recipe? I've been looking for one!

 

[BGBC]

Would you mind sharing your RU-55 recipe? I've been looking for one!

PM inbound

 

[coyote68]

Would you mind sharing your RU-55 recipe? I've been looking for one!

sent mine too

 

[Billy-Klubb]

My Over Blended Mess part 2.

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

Sour Brown ECY 20

 

[user 204491]

So I had about a dozen or so bottles that I had stepped up which all had grown one sort of a pellicle or another, so I decided it was time to add them to my bug farm the other night. Here is what it looked like looking straight down the mouth of the 5L flask prior to adding the new bottles (basically the pellicle that had grown from the first couple of additions:

And then here is what it had morphed into about 18 hours after I added this next round of 12 bottles:

 

[Sir-Brews-Alot]

Here's my very first pellicle, using Yeast Bay's Saison/Brett blend in a saison. I'm so proud!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

sooooo.... my Over Blended Mess part 2 started fermenting again and lost that pellicle. I added some extremely under fermented mead before I took the pics, and now it's got a small krausen again.

 

[Siberian]

9 month old roselaire blend with jolly pumpkin dregs.

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5 month old Flanders red:

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Floating boards are french oak staves from Makers Mark 45 barrels. I put them in both they sank after a few months in the older batch.

 

[Nico93]

brett from a morpheus dark, on the top of my imperial brett stout!

 

[user 204491]

9 month old roselaire blend with jolly pumpkin dregs.

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5 month old Flanders red:

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Floating boards are french oak staves from Makers Mark 45 barrels. I put them in both they sank after a few months in the older batch.

Mind if I ask what you're using for fermenters there?

 

[Siberian]

Mind if I ask what you're using for fermenters there?

15g HDPE food grade plastic barrels.

 

[nvs-brew]

anyone seen anything like this???
someone got me paranoid, and ive never seen anything quite like it

 

[youreanimpulse]

Are those hop bags or something? It looks like a pellicle in a burlap sack.

 

[nvs-brew]

it's a polyester bag i use generally for my BIAB, this time it had cherries in it..

this is a blend of a few different beers,
i then barrel aged it.
I then added cherries..

about 5 days ago i had a few ltrs in the bottom of a keg i poured in... and then i looked yesterday and i have this!!!

i had someone mention Botulism
ive had someone mention it could have need the Pellicle moving when i added the bottom the latest addition (didnt syphon, just poured in the top)
AND
yours sounds good...
but with the Botulism mentioned, im paranoid now... damn it..
ive sampled from the tap previously and tastes funky but not bad..

 

[1977Brewer]

You aren't going to get botulism in finished beer, unless you waited two weeks to pitch into wort you kept at 80 degrees. It's an infection for sure though.

 

[nvs-brew]

this is well fermented out.. it was never fermented @ 80, and since has been at room temp with a fair amount of fluctuation.

Infections i dont mind.. i can live with that.
From what i was aware beer was hard to ruin (as in make you physically sick).

Still keen to know what it could be.. still feel a bit weary

 

[BGBC]

Don't worry about botulism. What kind of beer is it? Is it supposed to be sour/funky? Or is this an unintentional infection?

It's definitely a pellicle in there.

 

[nvs-brew]

It is meant to be a sour/funky brew.. i got it from a mate. Think it was a BIPA...Wasnt to happy with the flavour.. oak barrel aged for 10 days and then added some cherries that were sitting in there about 8 weeks.
I would say it has come from the cherries...

 

[nvs-brew]

just spoke to the guy who made the original beer and he told me he pitched the yeast the next day (well thinks so anyway)

 

[nvs-brew]

barrel aged porter

 

[Brauer]

Nothin but the funk!

 

[DrunkleJon]

anyone seen anything like this???
someone got me paranoid, and ive never seen anything quite like it

That looks like a bath mat that your beer exploded on. It is a healthy pellicle. Of what I do not know. Worry not about botulism, nothing pathogenic can survive in beer.

 

[sweetcell]

Nothin but the funk!

incredible how symmetrical that is!

 

[masonsjax]

Looks like a brown version of the one I got from Dirty Dozen that I posted back a few pages here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6643538&postcount=1596

Yours is probably from a brett strain of some sort. How's it smell/taste?

 

[nvs-brew]

havent tasted it in a about a week, put some extra additions in since last time i tried it so i couldnt say atm...
will have a taste tonight/soon

Last sample the oak was very present, cherries have made a slight sourness...
added the bottom of a pretty hoppy pale ale so see how it tastes now..

i experiment a lot with blending beer, i blend and split and blend and split etc etc until im happy with the taste..
i hate ditching beer, this is a good way to stop doing that.. not so technical but with some oak barrels and additions it is fun.

 

[Shred]

My "kitchen sink" Sour Stout (coconut, cocoa, bourbon, oak, raspberries, vanilla, coffee... at least so far )