Recent content by Maso

Update: Every damn bottle has the same infection now on the surface. Total man hours wasted: 10h plus materials. God damned :mad: Positive about this is that now I have a good reason to make another batch, tweak it a little bit and enough empty bottles to bottle. :mug:

I racked from under the infection (or mold?) also. I think I had too much head space in the secondary. I don't usually rack to secondary but next time when I rack into secondary I'm thinking of adding some DME into the bucket > more co2. This should push all bad air out of the head space, hmm...

Thanks for the welcome. I just racked this gnarly stout carefully to another bucket and gave it a taste. Tasted just great! Time to bottle and hope they don't turn into bombs. Uh and somehow I need to forget that this ever happened to this batch... hardest part I think.

My first post to this awesome forum. I've been extract brewing for few years and been all grainer (BIAB) about a year now (no looking back!). This looks like the first infection I've ever had. Whole surface is covered in this strange looking rug with one nasty looking "crater" in it. It doesn't...