white stuff strawberries in secondary

[bisston]

Curious if I could get a suggestion on this...I've added frozen strawberries to secondary a couple weeks ago. I was thinking of moving to another clean fermenter to see how it looked, but little frightened now (see pic). Yeast was white labs California Ale. Intentions for beer were a strawberry blonde. Thoughts?

 

[Joewalla88]

Sorry to tell you, but that looks infected. Do you like sours?

 

[JGF]

I'd let it roll for a few months and forget about it. Taste it after awhile and see if it tastes like it will be drinkable. If it's a somewhat pleasant sour, let it go for a bit and bottle it...and then wait another bunch of months or a year. Sours take some patience.

 

[treacheroustexan]

Yeah I'd say infected as well.

 

[bisston]

Thanks guys for feedback, having not done much w/ sours before, so the idea would be to keep the "infected" as is...or do i siphon to another bucket and get the beer away from it??

 

[kh54s10]

You won't get the beer away from the infection.

However, you may want to rack to secondary after a while to remove the yeast cake and strawberries from the beer. If you do a secondary in a plastic fermenter, mark it and use it only for sours or you might infect other beers fermented in it.