TripelDubbel
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So my keezer took a crap and I've been using my fermentation chamber freezer to serve. Same setup just no collar for taps. Currently using picnic taps. Well I was down to one keg and had to ferment so I dumbly just disconnect the gas to my keg and left it in the fermentation chamber. I checked for good Krausen after a few days and haven't even looked in it for past 2-3 weeks. I went to cold crash it today and found everything covered in mold inside the chamber. I'm guessing it's condensation from the cold keg that was allowed to warm that contributed so much moisture to the chamber and caused the mold. Thoughts?? Is my keg still any good you think? I haven't cracked the lid in the bucket. View attachment 373998View attachment 373999
Patience my past self...RAHAHB
Any thoughts on this? Looks normal from the top, but I've never seen these stringy things coming down from the bottom of the Krausen before. This is 11 days after pitching US-05:
It doesn't look infected at all. Saison yeast does have a barnyard funky smell which is quite desirable. When the SG stops dropping - probably less than 1.005 - keg/bottle and enjoy
The lager I just did looked exactly like your first picture. I say no worries.
I've been having a lot of problems past year or so with my beers turning sour (also crazy over-carbonating so I'm thinking some sort of wild yeast contamination). After several batches got ruined, I decided to throw away my plastic buckets and bought glass carboy and new tubes and everything else that can touch beer after boiling-phase to make sure it would not happen again. I made my first batch over a week ago (basic cascade-apa, US-05, OG 1.053) and put it in a cellar. It was a bit too cold in there (15C which is about 59F i think) but it was fermenting the next day. I brought the carboy inside the house today to make sure it would ferment completely - bubbling is still going. I don't know if I'm being paranoid because of my past dissapointments, but I got worried does the beer look infected - AGAIN? Does beer in the pics look normal to you? Should i be worried about bretta or something? If I still have the problem I am out of ideas what is going wrong with my process. Naturally I clean equipment before brewing and sanitize with saniclean. The beer has not siphoned to secondary, opened or anything. As mentioned, I used plastic buckets before so I rarely opened the buckets to see how heatlhy fermentation should look like. But I am a lil bit worried about those "big bubbles"
HELP!!
is this an infection. Never seen this using s-05 after 2weeks. beer tastes ok but worried about the clumps.
If infected should i go ahead and crash and bottle?? or dump it. argh. first infection after 3years of brewing!!
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bottled it last saturday, hope that it's not an infection, in the photos looks worse than it is
If you have to ask "is this infected", then it is most likely not infected. If it was, you'd know, there would be no question.
Any idea what I have here? It doesn't really smell or taste like anything.
That's no infection. If you want to see an infection go to google images and search for "blue waffle"
That's no infection. If you want to see an infection go to google images and search for "blue waffle"
Anyone ever get a very faint oil look on top of their brew when using vanilla beans?
I got these little round, pebble-like things in my yeast cake after draining the primary today. Anything to be concerned about? The brew was cold crashed in back room for around 20 hours just before bottling. Probably just above freezing back there
1.7kg Coopers IPA
1kg Brew Enhancer 1
2lb(0.9kg) Amber DME
1kg Brown Sugar
2oz N.Z hops (green stuff in the pics)
25L, 1.058 OG to 1.016 FG
Can anyone tell whether this is an infection? This is day 5 in primary with cold hop added too early..
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