Infected?

[emgarsh]

This is my first AG batch. Porter that has been in primary for 7 days. Is this an infection? Is there any other way to tell aside from appearance?

 

[eastoak]

normal krausen.

 

[eastoak]

it could be infected but you will be better able to tell after the krausen drops by the taste, smell (in a sample not just by sniffing the fermentor which might smell funky but not be infected) or a pellicle.

 

[emgarsh]

Thanks...I'm used to the krausen dropping after this long in the primary which is what alarmed me. The smell and taste of my sample seems normal

 

[badlee]

Man its just ugly.
Infections are pretty

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[adrock430]

Give the bucket a few twists of the handle, tha't'll break it up a bit and it will drop out. Sometimes the yeast stick together and float on top and won't drop down.

 

[emgarsh]

Thanks...just being a nervous noob I guess :/ Gravity was where I expected it so I racked it to secondary as is.

 

[Chadwick]

I doubt that is an infection. I've seen true infections, and this isn't what I've seen. To repeat what has already been said, it's fine. Carry on.

 

[tripplehazzard]

Looks like healthy beer. Now no more peeking till you do a Final gravity reading.welcome to the wonderful world of home brewing!! Cheers

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[newbies13]

Looks totally fine. I've never had an infection, but smell is kind of useless I think. Some really tasty beer has smelled god awful during fermentation. From what I have seen taste is the only really good way to determine infection, unless you have literal mold growing on your beer.

 

[daman]

Didnt want to create a new thread so im asking here.
I have brewed double IPA last March (IBU 114) so believe me, it has quite an amount of hops inside.
Yesterday I tasted one of a couple bottles left (it has been maturing for a 10 months or so). And a problem was very much bobbles, the foam was flowing of the bottle, I really fought that it got infected or something. But after tasting... It was totally good, everything was acceptable except CO2... Don`t really understand what happened to my beer. After 2-4 months maturing it was perfect, low on C02, high on hops.
And it happened not for the first time, my milk stout - the same story, after 5-6 months it was foaming from the top tasting good. After a year it was foaming and tasting bad, got sourness...So the question is: Can the CO2 somehow increase? I mean while maturing? And does somebody know what really happened? How are you guys maturing your beer for a 2-3, even 5 years? I really thought that double IPA would last longer.