Secondary and Infection

[twisted-brew]

Hello,

I made a Weinhenstephaner clone last week. All was good from the primary. After two days in the secondary it became infected. I sanitized everything, well at least I thought I did. This was my first infection in a beer in probably 3 years. I'm trying to pinpoint it. Wheat beers by nature tend to be hazy so I wanted to try to experiment. To clarify the beer and added diluted gelatin in a cup of hot water. I've been doing this for quite some time in secondarys with much success. Could the hot gelatin water reacted to proteins left in the secondary from the beer and cause an infection or is it most likely a sanitation issue? There was a bit of yeast in the secondary. I didn't cold crash.

 

[botigol]

Sanitation is the only potential issue. That said, how do you know that it is infected?

 

[Kerrbrewer]

Dont rule out that the infection was in the primary and couldnt compete with the yeast. Once in seconday less competition

 

[twisted-brew]

Very interesting point @kerrbrewer. Well received.

 

[twisted-brew]

I tasted it before I saw it. Once I opened up the top of the fermenter it was "whoa".

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[MaryB]

Yeast rafts...

 

[Kerrbrewer]

Agree with MaryB that just looks like yeast rafts to me