the beers in the picture are from the same wort. Now let me explain the series of accidents that led to this situation:
My boiler died at 40 minutes after boil. I figured that I could still save the match and went on with cooling as usual. I split it in two vessels because I wanted to experiment a small batch with lactobacillus acidophilus tablets.
First issue was that I had not hopped at all the wort so I boiled rapidly for like 10 minutes an ounce of Citra and threw it in the big batch. The small batch stayed unhopped because I had read that lactobacillus is very sensitive to hops.
I pitched like 10 tablets of lactobacillus acidophilus in the small batch left it at 45 C and waited for 24h nothing happened Ph was around 5. Hmm... I waited another 24h still nothing.
So I just pitched a Belgian sour mix and lowered the temperature at 34C. There the fermentation started furiously. I had to leave for 4 days and when I returned the fermentation had finished but the beer has gone completely dark. Is the batch spoiled ?
My boiler died at 40 minutes after boil. I figured that I could still save the match and went on with cooling as usual. I split it in two vessels because I wanted to experiment a small batch with lactobacillus acidophilus tablets.
First issue was that I had not hopped at all the wort so I boiled rapidly for like 10 minutes an ounce of Citra and threw it in the big batch. The small batch stayed unhopped because I had read that lactobacillus is very sensitive to hops.
I pitched like 10 tablets of lactobacillus acidophilus in the small batch left it at 45 C and waited for 24h nothing happened Ph was around 5. Hmm... I waited another 24h still nothing.
So I just pitched a Belgian sour mix and lowered the temperature at 34C. There the fermentation started furiously. I had to leave for 4 days and when I returned the fermentation had finished but the beer has gone completely dark. Is the batch spoiled ?
I also have no clue why my pics are posted upside down
