Not an infection.
Great, thanks. Hard to imagine I will be drinking this stuff..
Not an infection.
What do you think? Added vanilla beans a week ago. About to keg and looks like this right now. The flash makes it stand out way more than it actually is. Can only see the oil slick look to it when the light hits it right but still had me nervous. Tastes great at the moment View attachment 381290
Just yeast rafts?
Just tasted it. Smelled like cider, tasted like cider vinegar. Conclusion infected.
I think this got infected because I stored my starter for a prolonged time after cold crashing without sealing it sufficiently.
Better to waste a starter than a whole batch of beer.
So I guess this is it. My first infection after 15 batches. Am I paranoid?
It seemed fine until a couple of days ago, about 4 days after dryhop.
I had a problem with my bucket fermenter with a spigot... when I was handling it, the spigot simply fell and I had to use my unsanitized hand and duct tape to temporarily cover the hole, and quickly transfer fermenter. This hapenned 2.5 week ago, and probably how it got infected.
So I am sceduled to bottle on tuesday of this week. It smells good and I will taste it, and if its good, I'll bottle. Oh and I started to cold crash 20minutes ago as soon as I noticed the possible infection.
Can anybody tell me if its infected or not? Thanks.
But yes, I used a bit of magic to fix the leaky fermenting bucket. Kept my hand on the hole while fetching duct tape with my other hand. Then I applied the tape with my free hand, losing a bit of liquid. I then quickly grabbed a clean carboy I had laying around and transferred using my auto-siphon. I made sure to sanitize all the equipment, but was in a rush so maybe it wasn't sanitized properly.
This is a porter sitting in secondary for about a month. Used safale 05 on itView attachment 384219
Thoughts on this? Smells ok.
^ Those 2 bottles are infected for sure. As long as no liquid from them went into your batch, you'll likely be fine.
Ok so I don't mean to beat a dead horse but here is a porter (I think) with a nice film on top.
The story behind this one is I racked it into secondary almost 2 years ago. I was about to bottle but wasnt feeling well so I decided to put it off. As luck would have it my pneumonia was actually cancer so my beer took a back burner while I dealt with that for the last two years. I popped the airlock off (which went dry) and to my surprise the beer smells really good and has quite the alcohol aroma. It smells like all of my other fantastic ferments.
Normally I would just bottle it and take a gamble but 2 years seems like a long time in a secondary to be ignored. My apartment was pretty well maintained temperature wise but there may have been a bit where it touched 80f. What do you ladies and gentlemen think?
Hey all. Is this an infection? I brewed a grapefruit Bavarian weizen. It stayed in the fermenter for almost 3 weeks. When I opened the lid, it had that stuff floating on the top. Could just be from the sides of the fermenter, but I donno because I am pretty new to all of this.
It tasted and smelled amazing. I tested it when I took a hydrometer reading. I bottled them anyways. If it is an infection, do I need to toss it? Is there health risks involved with infections?
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It tasted and smelled amazing. I tested it when I took a hydrometer reading. I bottled them anyways. If it is an infection, do I need to toss it? Is there health risks involved with infections?
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