Ninjatricky
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Hi all,
I'm relatively new to home brewing beer and have been experimenting with kitchen brewing using grain and spray malts. To save a bit of time on my latest brew I decided to try an extract kit. This came with spray malt and hop extract, which (according to the instructions) just required mixing with boiling water in the fermenter and then topping up with cold water. It's been very hot recently and the wort was still a bit warm to pitch my yeast, so I left it overnight to cool. On opening it the next day, it smelt a bit funny and had this floating on top (see pic).
Question: can anyone confirm what this is? (I assume it's mould) and although I've now chucked the batch, would anyone recommend a course of action that could have saved the batch?
I'm relatively new to home brewing beer and have been experimenting with kitchen brewing using grain and spray malts. To save a bit of time on my latest brew I decided to try an extract kit. This came with spray malt and hop extract, which (according to the instructions) just required mixing with boiling water in the fermenter and then topping up with cold water. It's been very hot recently and the wort was still a bit warm to pitch my yeast, so I left it overnight to cool. On opening it the next day, it smelt a bit funny and had this floating on top (see pic).
Question: can anyone confirm what this is? (I assume it's mould) and although I've now chucked the batch, would anyone recommend a course of action that could have saved the batch?