Pellicle Photo Collection

[BGBC]

Dusty pellicle on a golden sour before getting racked onto tart cherries
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[mitchard]

And the dry hopped portion of my gose, bottled last night

That dark spot is kind of concerning. I haven't seen anything like that before?

 

[dcHokie]

That dark spot is kind of concerning. I haven't seen anything like that before?

Looks to me like where the thief went in for the sample

 

[burninator]

That dark spot is kind of concerning. I haven't seen anything like that before?

Hole in the pellicle. Probably from condensation dripping off the bucket lid out in my hot garage.

 

[mitchard]

Ok, that makes sense. At first glance I was thinking it was a mold spot or something.

 

[CA_Mouse]

I got my first pellicle...

Here are the specifics. I brewed a kettle sour
50% Pilsner
50% White Wheat
Mashed at 154*F for 60 minutes, sparged with 170*F sparge water and collected 8.5 gallons and boiled for 15 minutes to kill anything that might be in there. With a gravity of 1.032, adjusted the pH with 88% Acid to take it to a pH of 4.0 and pitched 4 GoodBelly StraightShot Probiotic Oat drinks...

Then life got in the way with knee surgery.

4+ weeks later, I remembered about the kettle sour. Sample was at pH of 3.3 and gravity of 1.030. Aroma of light apricots and sweat socks. Taste is very tart and slightly acidic. Aroma above the pellicle is of fresh apricot preserves (wonderful childhood memory of my Mother's kitchen).

I'm thinking of pulling it into a fermenter and pitching some fresh Bootleg Biology Baltifunk (dregs from Baltimore HomeBrewCon Milk the Funk meetup - mix of Brett, Sacc, Lacto and Pedio). Then I will either dry hop or age in my barrel (haven't decided which).

 

[newkirk]

OK, I've been a lurker on this thread for some time now, thought it was time to post a few pics.

The first is an Old Ale fermenting with Wyeast 9097-PC, about two months in. Looks like nothing so much as Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.

The second one was bottled several months ago - this pic was about 4 months in - of a Flanders Red with Wyeast Roeselare blend. Looks like some kind of fruit cobbler.

j

 

[SunnyDownSnuff]

Oof...those are nasty...and incredibly awesome!

 

[newkirk]

These are apparently my 'house brett' - the cleaner-looking is a Wyeast 3068 Dunkel that I'm going to bottle this weekend, developed this pellicle 1-2 weeks ago, unwelcome.

The other three are all of an Old Peculier clone I brewed spring 2015 using WLP500 - after a few weeks it too started developing a pellicle almost identical to the one on the Dunkel. These photos were a couple months later, same shot with three different lightings. One with ambient lighting, one with camera flash (shows that the flash is really NOT the best for many shots like these) and one is with a ridiculously bright flashlight a couple feet from the carboy, my favorite shot.

The O.P. pellicle started out looking pretty much like the top pic, the dunkel, and after a couple months it looked like a plate of marbles dusted with dark DME. Tasted delightful, one 750ml bottle left, inspired me to rebrew the recipe with the 9097-PC, in my previous post. (which will surely end up tasting wildly different but doubtless good)

Flavor from this 'infection' is not overt, at least not within a few months. Musty, very faintly fruity perhaps, but that could have just been the WLP500 still being noticeable.

Just had to chill the last bottle of the OP, will probably drink it this weekend.

j

 

[specharka]

My no boil gose is starting to look pretty gnarly...

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[burninator]

My no boil gose is starting to look pretty gnarly...

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Wow! What do you have working in there?

 

[burninator]

Ok, that makes sense. At first glance I was thinking it was a mold spot or something.

Probably just looks black because the drip cleared out the hops from underneath the pellicle right there.

 

[crane]

Just popped this guy open to toss in some dregs to find a nice surprise of a pellicle that wasn't there a month ago.

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[specharka]

Wow! What do you have working in there?

WY3191 - Berliner Weisse Blend (sacc, lacto and Brett mix). Pitched a 1L stepped starter to primary and let it ride for 2 months. There wasn't much sour character when I pulled a gravity sample a month ago, so I'm hoping the monstrous pellicle is indicative of better things to come.

 

[burninator]

Sour table beer with house sour culture, local wild yeast isolate, and Wyeast lambic blend (if I recall correctly) from bottle dregs. This was split into two vessels with centennial hops and plums/second-use raspberries last weekend.

 

[burninator]

Sauerkraut gose, after about 8-10 weeks on 3 lbs of raspberries. Sauerkraut brine, wild local yeast, Orval dregs. Yeah, it looks weird at the top right of the pic, but it wasn't fuzzy. I think the contrast is due to competing cultures building pellicle on top of pellicle.

 

[B-to-the-B]

Here's mine. Single hop Mosiac IPA BIAB recipe. Had it fermenting in a Mr. Beer fermenter. After I dry hopped got this. I'll see how a few months does

 

[EPbrew]

Kegged this last night. Funky Path Berliner Weisse with WY5335 Lacto, Imperial G03 kolsch, and WY5526 Brett Lambic. I got the recipe here: https://www.experimentalbrew.com/content/session-beer-day-recipe-bonanza-14-recipes-you-brew
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[SunnyDownSnuff]

that close up makes me want to grab a spoon!

 

[shortyz]

has anyone done a timelapse of a nice pellicle, that would be cool to see.

 

[burninator]

Sour table beer with house sour culture, local wild yeast isolate, and Wyeast lambic blend (if I recall correctly) from bottle dregs. This was split into two vessels with centennial hops and plums/second-use raspberries last weekend.

Here's the dry hopped portion, after a week in the bucket.

 

[burninator]

My dark mild brewed Saturday, fermenting with wild saison-ish yeast and dregs from last year's plambic rye thing.

Yesterday morning. Sorry for the terrible lighting.


And yesterday afternoon, when I got home from work.

 

[Sourz4life]

Building my house culture back up after pitching a portion of it.

 

[twistedjosh]

My Apricot and Plum Sour Saison at 1 year on a second generation Roeselare cake

 

[TravelingLight]

Hot damn, I can finally participate in the pellicle thread.

Saison fermented out with WY3711, pulled off one gallon and pitched Jester King dregs (RU55 + Provenance).

 

[m00ps]

Hot damn, I can finally participate in the pellicle thread.

Saison fermented out with WY3711, pulled off one gallon and pitched Jester King dregs (RU55 + Provenance).

Frog pellicle
[reported]

 

[TravelingLight]

Frog pellicle
[reported]

Hahah I laughed way too hard at this. Well done sir.

 

[Spookwoman]

Victoria Plum sitting 2 weeks. Using old book and says to strain and add yeast etc after 10 days not sure if I should let it sit till a good covering or start straining etc now

 

[stadtbrau]

Saison. Pitched 2 packets of belle saison dry yeast which I have never used before and a large scoop from the yeast cake of a flanders red I brewed two months prior. I was fully fermented in 48 hours. It was very vigorous and fast. Its a few weeks later now and I have a nice pellicle forming.

 

[burninator]

Victoria Plum sitting 2 weeks. Using old book and says to strain and add yeast etc after 10 days not sure if I should let it sit till a good covering or start straining etc now

That really really looks like mold.