Pellicle Photo Collection

[coldrain]

Today they are both very active. Interestingly the homemade lacto does not have any airlock activity but the White Labs does? I`m going to pitch some 1056 today.

 

[stblindtiger]

Checked in on my Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura clone three weeks after adding .3 ounces of oak cubes from a previous Flanders, and 2 months after pitching a starter made from Jolly Pumpkin dregs.

This one came out a little blurry, but it was before I moved the carboy and disturbed the pellicle a little bit:

A look through the carboy openning:

Love the way this looks!

 

[dcHokie]

my latest

 

[pohldogg]

This is from a batch of kombucha. I jokingly told the friend that gave me the mother that she was going to infect my brewery. Looks like my brewery infected her kombucha. Maybe i shouldn't have made it in my old sour bottling bucket...

 

[triangulum33]

Where do these disgusting pellicles and scum layers end up when you bottle/keg? Do they get drunk up?
Blech!

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Where do these disgusting pellicles and scum layers end up when you bottle/keg? Do they get drunk up?
Blech!

They either collapse back into the beer or you rack out from under it and leave it behind. It's really not much different from krausen.

 

[mountainman13]

This thread makes me happy

 

[mountainman13]

Okay so I had a finished Wit starter, so I poured the liquor off of the top of it and put some crushed grains in it. We'll see what happens.

 

[dcHokie]

A blended Belgian-American IPA with Brett B:

 

[dcHokie]

Closeup of a pellicle from a mix of Drie Fonteinen, Oud Beersel, & Bavik Petrus dregs:

 

[B-Dub]

Petrus dregs seem to make the most powdery pellicle. Looking to finally get some more Aged Pale soon!!

BW

 

[stblindtiger]

Update on my Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura Clone attempt using only dregs from Jolly Pumpkin beers...

 

[Almighty]

I also noticed that my Petrus dregs were powdery
Bikes, Beer, and Adventures: Dreg Series: Sour Pale Common

 

[barrooze]

Success! Though, I don't know how much success it'll be...

I mashed a sour-worted Berliner Weiss on 1/6 and kept it at ~110-120F until 1/8. Boiled for 15 minutes on the 8th, killing all the lacto, and racked half to a fermenter. I pitched WLP029 into that batch. The other half, I left in the boil kettle, covered the top with cheesecloth, and left on my covered front stoop overnight. I had plans to place the BK under my rose bushes, but the weather decided that the night of the 8th was a good night to rain, so I had to keep the BK under an overhang. I racked it to a carboy on the morning of the 9th.

I wasn't sure anything was going to happen, because after a few days, there was no activity in the carboy. When I got home from work on the 12th, though, the airlock was going and there was some krausen! Alright! Spontaneous fermentation! It fermented out and has been sitting there ever since. I've been checking on it every few days, hoping for a pellicle, but nothing... Until this morning! I looked and there was the beginning of a brett-looking pellicle! how cool is this? I have absolutely no idea how it's going to do or how many sugars are still in the beer (i haven't taken an SG reading yet), but the batch I pitched WLP029 into finished at 1.001.

Do you think I should add some simple syrup to the mix to give the bugs something to eat? Should I take a reading now, while the pellicle hasn't covered the surface yet?

Thanks! Sorry for the long-winded post! I'm just stoked that some bugs got in! :rockin:

 

[thughes]

Saison with Cuvée René dregs:

 

[jessup]

my pellicle got moldy :cross: looks like powdered sugar.

 

[Spring_Chicken]

my pellicle got moldy :cross: looks like powdered sugar.

What kind of vessel are you using for fermentation?

 

[thughes]

What kind of vessel are you using for fermentation?

corny keg.

 

[smokinghole]

I pull the dip tubes out for fermentation. If I am going to or plan on using the keg to transfer under pressure I'll add it back to the keg afterwards. I think it makes for less cleaning.

 

[milldoggy]

Not one pellicle, but 9. This is my sour ferm closest. Couple wheat lambic blends, some on apricots, some cherrys, souring a klosch, stout and scotch ale.

 

[milldoggy]

forgot the photo

 

[boostsr20]

Cream ale with Russian River and Fantomè Saison Dregs in secondary.

Jim beam bourbon barreled RIS with a multitude of built up cultures from Trinity, Russian River, jolly pumpkin, goose island, fantome Saison and Rodenbach.

 

[dcHokie]

Cream ale with Russian River and Fantomè Saison Dregs in secondary.

Jim beam bourbon barreled RIS with a multitude of built up cultures from Trinity, Russian River, jolly pumpkin, goose island, fantome Saison and Rodenbach.

That second photo could be framed, seriously

 

[pohldogg]

From a brett l only beer. No activity for two days after pitching, then on day three I woke up to this.

 

[ICWiener]

!

 

[boostsr20]

Cream ale on RR and Fantome Cultures

Same Pellicle just different lighting.

 

[Coff]

Dusty white Pellicile on my 100% Brett C Bitter.

 

[mountainman13]

Hopefully in a couple of months I can contribute

 

[Almighty]

I have some great pellicles, but I can never take very good pictures.
For example boostsr20 how did you take such a nice picture?
Can anyone please share their tips and tricks?

 

[smokinghole]

He likely has a real camera. My point and shoot cameras suck at taking pics.