Pellicle Photo Collection

[homebrewer_99]

I swear that's a picture of the planet Mercury...

 

[Almighty]

I have a few nice ones
Flanders Red 2 months old

Then added Oak Dowel and 2 weeks later

Petrus dregs add to 1.045 wort and 4 days laters

Enjoy, many more to come

 

[maskednegator]

Doesn't the mold on that dowel make you nervous?

 

[pipapat]

my oak dowels look nothing like that.
lol

 

[Almighty]

That was my first time using an Oak dowel so I wasn't sure what to expect. I have no clue why it looks like that. I decided to clean it because it doesn't look right (but do wild beers ever look right). I'm going to be very sad if this ruins the beer but I'm just going to wait and find out.

 

[yellowthere]

Draining/straining remainder from peaches, this has grown to appx. 25 gallons from additions of various brown batches: (5-14-2010)

It's growing a spine! Watch out for that one, who knows what is growing in that.

 

[November]

Dead Cat perhaps? When are you planning on packaging that? It looks terrifying and fantastic at the same time.

 

[King of Cascade]

 

[Budzu]

pure brett lambicus 1 week old

 

[jessup]

pure brett lambicus 1 week old

thanks for listing the type of yeast and the age of the brew. that IMO is the most important part of this thread and a major reason i wanted to make this thread!! i think it's safe to say no two pellicles will ever be the same.

thanks to all for participation!!! keep 'em coming...

 

[bellebouche]

I guess this belongs here!

 

[pipapat]

I guess this belongs here!

nice what type of sour is it.
i like the little bubbles.

 

[bellebouche]

nice what type of sour is it.
i like the little bubbles.

It will be a Lambic base beer that I'm intending to turn into a gueuze... not brewed it yet but just having a go at catching wild bugs for the souring.

That pellice is sat on top of a small 1 litre jar of old spent trub/beer form an older brew and it's caught on after a couple of months now.

 

[Malatesta]

Had my own start of a nasty little membrane in a Red Ale.

So question: I bottled anyway and avoided all the skin I could. If I hadn't, though and I got bits in my beer, what would have formed in the bottle?

 

[COLObrewer]

Dead Cat perhaps? When are you planning on packaging that? It looks terrifying and fantastic at the same time.

It is an oak spiral, I plan on bottling in Nov/Dec, its getting good. Oude Bruin met Perzik

 

[Barc]

So question: I bottled anyway and avoided all the skin I could. If I hadn't, though and I got bits in my beer, what would have formed in the bottle?

Brett will produce little pellicles in the bottle, or most of mine do, regardless of how little of the skin you manage to get into your beer. It may not if you flushed each bottle with CO2 but I've not tried that. It will eventually sink on its own or when you move it. And, if it doesn't, there's nothing wrong with it. It is a natural part of fermentation with Brett.

 

[dstar26t]

A mixed concoction of different yeasts and bugs, 3 days after pitching.

 

[rtt121]

Did not pitch any bugs. Wild growth. Is this a pellicle or mold? It is very tasty.

 

[jessup]

Is this a pellicle or mold? It is very tasty.

i'm not really sure, you'd have to get better zoomed in pic. are those rehydrated cranberries? a description of the growth would help, but here's one that i assume is mold growing on the pellicle. it's from over the summer and was a peach ale that i pitted the peaches and blended them into a puree. once i saw the mold i reracked from underneath and salvaged the beer which was not very peachy (see other threads about peaches).

 

[rtt121]

what do you think?

Not frozen, fresh from the bog.... literally

Brewed a simple hefe recipe with WB06, drank half of it. The other half I put into 5 pounds fresh cranberries, soaked in starsan then halved. 5 days in looked fine smelled great. 8 days in had about a quarter size of this stuff and then sealed it for a month. This is what it looked like next.

 

[Zaphod]

I've been meaning to post this for a while and keep forgetting. This is a 16 month old Flanders Reddish Brown in a Russian River Temptation barrel. Though this picture was taken when it was only a few months old.

 

[jessup]

wow where do i line up to buy a RR barrel? rtt121: you know i had the same looking stuff on my blueberry mead and assumed that was mold, but maybe it's not i saw this, got scared and rackd off the blueberries but the alcohol content was soo high when this occured i was shocked. 15 lbs honey and 15+ lbs blueberries in the mead with crazy amounts of nutrients. when i racked off the blueberries a week after i saw this growth, the SG was like 1.001 and has since dropped to .9998 - lowest i've ever seen.

 

[pipapat]

jessup my flanders red will be ready in a few months ill have to shoot you a bottle.

I need to get pics up of all my sours too.

 

[BrewSpook]

You know, after reading through this thread I have a new respect for a hobby I have loved for more than 7 years now.

Who else would try to drink some $#!^ that looks like any of that We are some courageous bastards.

 

[lurker18]

No picture yet, as I am planning on starting a sour next week. For the oak dowel guys, in all the reading I do, some say no dowel, just a regular airlock, some use a wood plug, and some let the dowel or plug touch the wort. What way should I go, and this will be my first one, so I don't have any other reference.

 

[smokinghole]

Figure I'll add this to the mix. This is the pellicle from my 11-11-11 Old Ale. It's the wyeast PC9097 Old Ale blend. I still have not see a definite of what the Brett strain is but here's the pellicle.

I will post up again once it reforms this was just before transfer from primary to secondary.

 

[Zaphod]

wow where do i line up to buy a RR barrel?

Sorry jessup, just saw this. Vinnie was apparently offering to-be discarded barrels at NHC a couple years ago for just the cost of shipping. So me and a few homebrew buddies went in on two.

 

[jessup]

Sorry jessup, just saw this. Vinnie was apparently offering to-be discarded barrels at NHC a couple years ago for just the cost of shipping. So me and a few homebrew buddies went in on two.

wow that vinnie, i hear nothing but good things about him. to be honest i was a little disappointed to hear that tomme arthur was suing moylan brewing for using a celtic cross. not very cool. take an hint from vinnie and avery brewing with their collaboration not litigation beer.

jessup my flanders red will be ready in a few months ill have to shoot you a bottle. I need to get pics up of all my sours too.

yes, you need to get your photos up asap! or as quick as the wild things allow whenever you're down for a trade i'm all about it. being your in utah i'm sure i can help soothe what ales ya pm sent

For the oak dowel guys, in all the reading I do, some say no dowel, just a regular airlock, some use a wood plug, and some let the dowel or plug touch the wort. What way should I go, and this will be my first one, so I don't have any other reference.

i'm trying not to let this thread get off point so i'm going to kindly point you in the right direction w/o going into detail.
a quick search returned this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/oak-dowel-stopper-procedure-177814/ search around because the oak dowel thing has been thoroughly discussed. cheers

 

[jessup]

This is the pellicle from my 11-11-11 Old Ale. It's the wyeast PC9097 Old Ale blend.

thank you for your compliance

 

[JoeBuch]

Does anyone know what kind of bacteria this is? Brett? Pedio?

If the jungle juice at a party doesn't run out we usually have a lot of this on the remaining stuff.