But around some of the krausen patches it looks like that broken ice pack, the beginning of a pellicle to me?
I hoped I wouldn't have to post here, but I must . I brewed a cream ale about 2 weeks ago and just checked the fermentor.
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I tasted a sample and its hard for me to tell if it's the start of an infection. I used Safale US-05 and rehydrated. Fermentation didn't start until 2 days after I put the yeast in. I checked the gravity and it is 1.009.
Don't show your friends that picture when you serve it to them haha
Brewed a Dunkelweizen. Wyeast 3068. Very aggressive fermentation which is to be expected by this yeast. 1L starter. Smelled fine while fermenting. 2 months later I open up the fermenter to find this. I've only seen a film like this on a sour I brewed using Lactobaccilus. Looks like pelicle formation. White/gray film on top. Here's the thing. FG was normal. Smelled like a dunkel. Tasted fine. Is there such thing as a secondary infection? I kegged it anyway to see if it turns out tasting fine. What do you think?
This is my first post on HBT. I've spent years reading and getting info off of the forum and it's been so much help. But now I'm in need of answers to a question I have! I have a feeling I know what's going on but I'm in the deepest pit of denial.
I recently brewed a 10 gallon batch of an Amber ale with my partner and we used two different types of dry yeast, we were in a pinch. I used Us-05 and my partner had US-04. We placed our carboys side by side in the same room. His started fermenting vigorously with 12 hours while mine started really slow. After two and a half days his had pretty much calmed down, that was when my carboy took off and blew the airlock off. I found this to be quite odd after many days (we aerate with a wine degaser and I've never had problems with stuck fermentation). I checked the gravity after 7 days and when I opened up the airlock I saw this. And the smell was extremely yeasty. When tasting both his tasted like every other beer I've had at this stage....young and green. Hop character was there..pleasantly malty. Mine tasted stale and yeasty.
Is this an infection ?
Brewed a Dunkelweizen. Wyeast 3068. Very aggressive fermentation which is to be expected by this yeast. 1L starter. Smelled fine while fermenting. 2 months later I open up the fermenter to find this. I've only seen a film like this on a sour I brewed using Lactobaccilus. Looks like pelicle formation. White/gray film on top. Here's the thing. FG was normal. Smelled like a dunkel. Tasted fine. Is there such thing as a secondary infection? I kegged it anyway to see if it turns out tasting fine. What do you think?
This is my first post on HBT. I've spent years reading and getting info off of the forum and it's been so much help. But now I'm in need of answers to a question I have! I have a feeling I know what's going on but I'm in the deepest pit of denial.
I recently brewed a 10 gallon batch of an Amber ale with my partner and we used two different types of dry yeast, we were in a pinch. I used Us-05 and my partner had US-04. We placed our carboys side by side in the same room. His started fermenting vigorously with 12 hours while mine started really slow. After two and a half days his had pretty much calmed down, that was when my carboy took off and blew the airlock off. I found this to be quite odd after many days (we aerate with a wine degaser and I've never had problems with stuck fermentation). I checked the gravity after 7 days and when I opened up the airlock I saw this. And the smell was extremely yeasty. When tasting both his tasted like every other beer I've had at this stage....young and green. Hop character was there..pleasantly malty. Mine tasted stale and yeasty.
Is this an infection ?
and no bubbles in airlock? does everything look good? thanks
and no bubbles in airlock? does everything look good? thanks
First possible infection 10 weeks on yeast cake and lid blew early. Keg it and see?
First possible infection 10 weeks on yeast cake and lid blew early. Keg it and see?
That's definitely a pellicle, could well be from Lacto. That means it will sour over time. A hint of tartness is not necessarily bad with a Dunkel but it will get worse, so in that light, drink fast, but...
...all Lacto pellicles I've seen are white, never a gray one. Was that bucket well, well cleaned before use? Cleaned as in scrubbing with Barkeepers Friend, and re-passivated? I've read many of those buckets still had a coating on them from fabrication (China). That coating maybe in your beer now.
BTW, what do you mean by secondary infection? Is this SS bucket a secondary fermentor?
So update on my infection. Kegged it and it tasted great. Slight hint of tartness but hardly detectable. Tastes like a great Dunkelweizen. I'm sure it was an infection but not sure what the bug was.
I did clean it and sanitize but clearly not good enough. That was my primary vessel. By secondary infection I mean the beer fermented as expected by the yeast, krausen and head blew out the top coming into contact with the bottom of the lid which lead to a secondary infection creating a pellicle with a little time. I'm sure if I would have left it for some time it would have turned into a sour. I feel as though the infection was due to the lid but who really knows. I know I don't soak my lid because I don't have a vessel large enough to submerge it. Either way, it turned out to be a great dunkel and up'd my paranoia on proper cleaning.
I feel as though the infection was due to the lid but who really knows. I know I don't soak my lid because I don't have a vessel large enough to submerge it.
Spray bottles sanitize everything
Cept herpes, that's for life.
Spray bottles sanitize everything
Ugh, here you go . . .
I haven't decided what to do yet. Odds are this came from taking a reading about a week ago. I might transfer below the gunk and let it sit for a while.
I see that is your first post. I really hope it's not your first batch of beer.
That is one of the cooler photos here. Can you get anything higher res? inquiring eyes want to see!
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