Pellicle Photo Collection

[tankdeer]

Salted porter?.....


Edit: Lol. Just realized you were in Santee. East County born & raised!

 

[WesleyS]

Pitched WLP570 with dregs from a Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza and Timmermans Oude Gueuze. Brewed on August 26th, transferred to carboy about a week ago and the pellicle formed a couple days later. Tasted quite sour when I transferred it.

 

[AventinusCam]

Right now this is our pride and joy. Racked 1 gallon off to age on oak chips for blending in a gueze. This is almost a year old and sitting on a lot of peaches. A lot. Both yellow and white peaches. We used Wyeast strain and I added dregs from Tilquin Geuze, Fantome, Goose Island, 100% Brett C homebrew and from Bayrischer bahnhof brettanomyces lambicus Berliner (mouthful). I know it isn't the most clear due to the better bottle...but you can definitely notice a big funky pellicle growing over the peaches. Can't wait for this to be done.

 

[mloula]

This is a gallon test ferment that I pulled out of my latest pale ale and "pitched" about a quarter pound of local honey. This is one week old today.

 

[edmanster]

I did a all brettanomyces b cider with wyeast 5112 and it said it could possibly form a pellicle.. I can only speculate one will form here..

 

[TANSTAAFB]

I did a all brettanomyces b cider with wyeast 5112 and it said it could possibly form a pellicle.. I can only speculate one will form here..

Please keep us up to date on how this turns out! I keep a batch of Apfelwein going at all times and I never thought about a Brett cider

 

[Native302]

I did a all brettanomyces b cider with wyeast 5112 and it said it could possibly form a pellicle.. I can only speculate one will form here..

Very curious about this - subscribed for future updates.

 

[edmanster]

Indeed.. BTW this is raw cider that added sulfite so I could control the primary yeast fermentation but that doesn't include the bacteria if any is present!!! Campden tabs won't kill most bacteria..

 

[mutedog]

I'm pretty sure that campden tabs/sulfites do kill bacteria.

 

[edmanster]

I'm pretty sure that campden tabs/sulfites do kill bacteria.

your correct!! we target certain spoiling bacteria for brewing..

 

[lunshbox]

Here is my Oud Brun at two months.

 

[dcHokie]

Whiling away the storm with beery things, I snapped a couple of pics of recently changed pellicles:

2 pics of a bretted english brown

above, decided to dose a keg of an unremarkable cream ale with roselare and some sour dregs, I flushed with CO2 but this pellicle popped up real quick and started changing fast

 

[dinnerstick]

i know it's cheating to show your lacto veggies but it's a hell of a pellicle isn't it

 

[levifunk]

Lambic pellicle on Day 277 in the barrel.

 

[JordanThomas]

This is a gallon test ferment that I pulled out of my latest pale ale and "pitched" about a quarter pound of local honey. This is one week old today.

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That is an epic 1-week old pellicle!

 

[drchris83]

Salted porter caught something. Likely the brett.b i have been using

Can you elaborate on the nature of a salted porter?

 

[TNGabe]

Wlp 645 Brett c starter.

 

[barrooze]

Spontaneously fermented with wild yeast for a month, then pitched a starter made from JP Calabaza and a Flanders Brown dregs. This has been aging for 6 months.

The dregs from the Brown obviously had all sorts of different bugs in it. What sort of infection does it look like I have at this point?

 

[lunshbox]

Spontaneously fermented with wild yeast for a month, then pitched a starter made from JP Calabaza and a Flanders Brown dregs. This has been aging for 6 months.

The dregs from the Brown obviously had all sorts of different bugs in it. What sort of infection does it look like I have at this point?

Dude that is a crazy looking pelicle. It looks like spaghetti.

 

[mutedog]

Spontaneously fermented with wild yeast for a month, then pitched a starter made from JP Calabaza and a Flanders Brown dregs. This has been aging for 6 months.

The dregs from the Brown obviously had all sorts of different bugs in it. What sort of infection does it look like I have at this point?

Looks like brett

 

[barrooze]

Anyone know what kind of infection this is?

No idea but it looks just like mine.

 

[kmos]

6 weeks into my all-brett Belgian Rye -- my first pellicle!

 

[2brew1cup]

My two our bruins 2 years in.

 

[mutedog]

No idea but it looks just like mine.

Barooze, I harvested a wild yeast from grapes and it made a pellicle like yours, I'm fairly sure it's a type of brettanomyces.

 

[bottlebomber]

My two our bruins 2 years in.

How are they tasting?

 

[2brew1cup]

Mildly sour. Believe or not there is this hoppy aroma but it taste there is no bitterness. This is not to be the sweet malty notes and cloying so. It tastes like the blood of a dwarven warlord if that helps.

 

[kmos]

It tastes like the blood of a dwarven warlord if that helps.

Sounds about right.

 

[2brew1cup]

Honestly I am limited in the time I have to devote to brewing. I live in a house with radon poisoning and who knows what floating in the air. I sanitize and mist the air as best I can but admittedly I have had more style failures and infections than success this all sound bad until I pretend I am actual an artisan pushing the limits on an old world style and retranslating my former complaints I can say.. I have the amazing patience needed to awake the slumbering complexities brought out only by the rip van winklesque dreams of yeast left in solitude for years. The air surrounding contains the essence needed to bestow such glory to wort. I have never tasted defeat or failure. Only the elixirs of Mother Nature and Father Time!!!

 

[JordanThomas]

Anyone know what kind of infection this is?

Clearly the unboiled ramen/flying spaghetti monster strain.

 

[barrooze]

Barooze, I harvested a wild yeast from grapes and it made a pellicle like yours, I'm fairly sure it's a type of brettanomyces.

Interesting. I did a spontaneous ferment for this one. Left it in the boil kettle overnight next to some rose bushes with cheesecloth covering the opening so maybe that's the driver here.