foreigngreg
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Hi
I just got home from work this afternoon to discover in shock and panick that the bucket full of unfermented beer I prepared on sunday night (72 hours ago) that was waiting to be inocculated is fermenting by itself! There is a good 10cm of krausen, I added a blow-off tube seeing this, it is now bubbling away.
I am consequently quiet scared for the subsequent quality of my brew as we had put a lot of energy into this one (brewed with some buddies). It is a chili weiss, we used Hersbrucker hops for 15IBU, some curaçao orange at 10mins for taste and Malgassy chili (brought back from madagascar) that gives a nice hot aftertaste.
I live in Switzerland, spring here is now in full (early) swing and we brewed on the porch, so im wandering if this might have been a reason for contamination (carrying fermentor outside).
I wanted to brew this with a nice neutral american hefe yeast, but since it is already bubbling i was hesitating to 'save' it with something I have in the fridge.
Your thoughts please!
I just got home from work this afternoon to discover in shock and panick that the bucket full of unfermented beer I prepared on sunday night (72 hours ago) that was waiting to be inocculated is fermenting by itself! There is a good 10cm of krausen, I added a blow-off tube seeing this, it is now bubbling away.
I am consequently quiet scared for the subsequent quality of my brew as we had put a lot of energy into this one (brewed with some buddies). It is a chili weiss, we used Hersbrucker hops for 15IBU, some curaçao orange at 10mins for taste and Malgassy chili (brought back from madagascar) that gives a nice hot aftertaste.
I live in Switzerland, spring here is now in full (early) swing and we brewed on the porch, so im wandering if this might have been a reason for contamination (carrying fermentor outside).
I wanted to brew this with a nice neutral american hefe yeast, but since it is already bubbling i was hesitating to 'save' it with something I have in the fridge.
Your thoughts please!