Post your infection

[Pivzavod]

After about 20 batches this is my first official infection. It is on my Switzer Mesa Honey Wheat ale batch. Can any one ID the kind of infection for me? I'm pissed about it, because I made a 3 gal batch of this recipe earlier this year and it came out great and we blasted through it in a couple of weeks, so I figured I'd do a 5 gal batch for when summer really got here and now it's infected. Dang!

I racked the beer from under the top layer and bottled it like normal. It's drinkable but has a strange taste to it. I am hoping that that will age out, but I'm not holding my breath. :-(

I've had similar bubbles turn into something more like the islands below and no issues with the beer. I just finished drinking it this weekend with a friend who helped me kill the keg.

 

[r_flagg]

Well hopefully it will be tasty. It sure looks pretty!

 

[benbradford]

THis is a three week old batch. Had this a couple of times, cleaned everything, but this came into new batch a month later.

http://picasaweb.google.com/108488725530733315820/6252010#5487192897533878194

 

[Idlehanz]

THis is a three week old batch. Had this a couple of times, cleaned everything, but this came into new batch a month later.

http://picasaweb.google.com/108488725530733315820/6252010#5487192897533878194

I think I'd quit using that bucket!

 

[benbradford]

not the same bucket...I don't think. If it was, I cleaned it with bleach to the point that nothing could make it. I used a washed yeast, but from a batch that was fine. I will make sure I use a different fermenter, and yeast for my next batch. This batch, like the others, will be fine, but I am looking to find out where the infection is entering the system.

 

[jcarson83]

The lid gasket would be my guess. That's why I switched to a carboy, less room for error.

 

[Pivzavod]

Read what I did to test 2/3 of my buckets for recurring infections - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/recurring-infection-cleanup-here-my-plan-171704/

I made a few batches in 2 of them since April and no infections.

 

[brewagentjay]

Came across my first Infection I guess on the 4th.........Was a scotch ale I did for national brew day. Had whiteish large bubles hanging out on top and a film. I just racked underneath and bottled......Hoping for the best. I also checked another batch I did same day.......It has small whiteish glob on one side but other than that smells great.

Perhaps what ever the source was had to touch both brews I was pretty drunk on brew day so could have been any thing.....I'm assuming happened after boiling so bucket, bucket gasket, or something.

Going to bleach the heck out of everything I got. I also purchased new tubing.

I'm using no rinse santi, cheaper stuff brite something perhaps I need to step up to a better santi?

I just brewed a new batch on the 4th, so hoping that the infection didn't get that batch because it's my fav beer.......

 

[Walker]

That's so pretty, no-one should miss it, it's truly what satans anus would look like:

Keep on brewing my friends

That one is pretty cool looking. I might make it my computer desktop wallpaper.

 

[Ouroboros]

That one is pretty cool looking. I might make it my computer desktop wallpaper.

It may look like Satan's anus, but what does it taste like?

 

[slowbie]

So I'm making a peach wheat and I forgot to peel the peaches, and when I opened up the primary there was a dry white crust on top with evidence of what looked to be pellicle like bubbles. I transfered to secondary anyways just in case it was mold or something more harmless, and below is a picture of what it looks like now.



Does anyone have an ID on what that is? Is there any chance this would make a decent sour if I let it go, or should I just dump it?

PS sorry about the gigantic image. I can't figure out how to make it a more manageable size. If a mod wants to take care of that for me that'd be great.

 

[Frank99]

Lactobacillus. This is an ESB that was fermenting 4 weeks in the primary. I Skimmed off the white stuff, crash chilled, and dry hopped in the keg w/ .5oz Styrian Goldings and .5oz Tetnanger. Awesomely tasty brew.

 

[hedonist91]

I'm guessing now that I had an infected batch of Stout- looked exactly like all of the posts with brett-holy crap I thought you ppl snuck into my beer room. It's all a learning process. Love it so much.

 

[snowveil]

Not sure what this one is. Looks like mold? It appeared after a month in the primary.

Strange thing is, this was a split batch directly after the boil, and it appeared on both primaries. Both buckets were from the same place, but didn't appear to have developed anything from their previous batches.....so it was likely either during the cool-down phase of my wort, bad yeast (unlikely, the pack was sealed), or while I was taking hydro readings.

It smelled and tasted fine....racked from underneath it and bottled today...we'll see how it turns out

 

[jonbomb]

Say, I pitched some Orval dregs on this Saison 5 days ago. Could this be a pelicle forming, or just some sacch. kicking back up? I'm new to the whole bug thing. Please tell me it's infected....please...

Thanks
KD

I popped open my lid last night. My beer had something like this on top but only on half of the beer. The circles looked more of an oval shape. Could that be an infection. I will include a photo when I get home.

 

[Pivzavod]

Lactobacillus. This is an ESB that was fermenting 4 weeks in the primary. I Skimmed off the white stuff, crash chilled, and dry hopped in the keg w/ .5oz Styrian Goldings and .5oz Tetnanger. Awesomely tasty brew.

The white crusty stuff is not lactobacillus. I have had this in a few batches and Revvy said that its just yeasties and I think it might be beer stone.

Check out my recents pics - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/adventures-yeast-infection-189952/

 

[Frank99]

The white crusty stuff is not lactobacillus. I have had this in a few batches and Revvy said that its just yeasties and I think it might be beer stone.

Check out my recents pics - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/adventures-yeast-infection-189952/

Hmmm. It looked exactly like the first pic on this topic. This is the first time I've ever had anything remotely resembling an infection. That's good to know. In any event, it didn't have any obvious off flavors from it.

 

[licquyd]

I have it in a carboy and airlock now

What do you think this is....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10034834@N06/4873565594/

 

[brewagentjay]

I have an infection in my current secondary (Stout) and I see the starts of one in one of my primaries....SW 420. Both are my fav beers so I hope to keep them. The questions are: 1) who throws these out and who doesn't? 2) what has been the result?

 

[HItransplant]

not sure what Ive got here... could be bubbles, could be fuzzies.

any ideas?

oh, and what are those round balls.. they look like fish food.

I know, super noob questions here.... be gentle, its my first time.



sorry about the big pictures... not sure how to make them smaller at this point (now that Ive already uploaded them).

 

[pwndabear]

If those white things are fuzzies, you probably have an infection, however they look like bubbles to me. the little balls are yeast clumps.

You look like you have a fantastic beer going there.

 

[licquyd]

Look like beer to me.....I had similar and all was well.

 

[HItransplant]

yay... !!! I was hoping it was just newbie jitters. Also, its only been in there like 5 days so I figured that was too early to see infection anyway.

thanks guys.

as far as the brew is concerned.. it tasted really good when it came out of the primary at ~10 days... so Im hoping it will only get better after a few weeks in secondary.

 

[wookiemofo]

I told myself at this point that I wouldn't post questions like this until I had sat back and let things rest for a bit... but this ones new and I have to ask.

I assume this is krausen that got 'stuck' on some CO2 bubbles? Or I hope anyway. It's an IPA after 10 days in the primary.

The shot got rotated...

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

I've got an infection in a Centennial Blonde. I can't post pictures, but it's white bubbles, about the size of marbles. This is the 3rd week on primary on this one, I checked gravity last week, everything was fine. I opened it yesterday to check again, and infected. I took a gravity sample from under the crud, it was fine, and I tasted it. It tasted fine. Can I rack from under the scuzz and keg away?

 

[DeathBrewer]

Rack, keg and drink it immediately. If the infection takes hold, it may start tasting like ass soon.

 

[msa8967]

Tried dry hopping for the first time 6 days ago. I thought I hade cleaned and sanitized everything very well but today I now find these signs of infection. Should I bother kegging or even bottling either of these batches of amber ale?

Can anything be done to salvage some of these batches? thanks for any input anyone may have.

Mick

 

[wyzazz]

Taste it, if it's OK then keg and drink quickly!

 

[jonbomb]

This is in secondary for two weeks this tuesday... At first it looked like yeast rafts but now its a little more white then it was before and theres more of it... Infection ?? or is it still yeast rafts .

 

[rpatton]

Hi, about 2 days into fermentation (though with no bubbles etc) my ESB started developing what looks to be mold. The pic linked to from below is from day 4. I read that mold can simply be skimmed off, though I'm not sure how to do that in a carboy, maybe a collapsible fishnet type thing. In any case, I hadn't seen many pictures of mold contamination, so thought I would post this.

I suspect the mold got in when I had suckback in the air lock, there is some slight mold in my fermentation freezer and without the lock working effectively it must have gotten in

Regards,
Rob