Is this ruined?

[Moe]

Hi,

I have just brewed a Mangrove Jacks grapefruit IPA.
I made it up with 1kg of spraymalt, fermented it at 20-21degrees for 18 days. I dry hopped on day 13 using a hopbag, and cold crashed it for 24hours.
Cleaned all the kit and used ‘no rinse steriliser powder’ (sodium percarbonate) to sterilise.
I have just kegged it, but when I opened up the FV I noticed some growth on top of the liquid.
Please can someone have a look at let me know if this is ruined or not?
Thanks

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[Hoddy]

stop opening the lid. Its been going for ages. Keg it and see what its like. You made so you will think its great and thats all that matters.

 

[Keruso]

Yep I agree, looks normal to me, you often get some floaters, I would package and consume for sure

 

[Fireside Ales Homebrewery]

Hi,

I have just brewed a Mangrove Jacks grapefruit IPA.
I made it up with 1kg of spraymalt, fermented it at 20-21degrees for 18 days. I dry hopped on day 13 using a hopbag, and cold crashed it for 24hours.
Cleaned all the kit and used ‘no rinse steriliser powder’ (sodium percarbonate) to sterilise.
I have just kegged it, but when I opened up the FV I noticed some growth on top of the liquid.
Please can someone have a look at let me know if this is ruined or not?
Thanks

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Could well just be hop related detritus. Keg or bottle it, 2-3 weeks to carbonate. Give it a try. Remember that you might need to give it 2-3 weeks longer to age the brew. Takes a while for all the flavours to really fall into place.
good luck

 

[RichardM]

Does it smell OK? Have you tasted it? The chances are it will be fine.

 

[Moe]

Thanks,
Just smells of that yeasty homebrew smell at the moment. Had a taste as I was kegging and tastes quite young and yeasty still, not sour, so fingers crossed.

 

[Moe]

Could well just be hop related detritus. Keg or bottle it, 2-3 weeks to carbonate. Give it a try. Remember that you might need to give it 2-3 weeks longer to age the brew. Takes a while for all the flavours to really fall into place.
good luck

Thanks

 

[Fireside Ales Homebrewery]

Thanks,
Just smells of that yeasty homebrew smell at the moment. Had a taste as I was kegging and tastes quite young and yeasty still, not sour, so fingers crossed.

Sounds good it is so easy to second guess yourself. I thought I had just ruined a Porter. However, put it in the Keg the other night. Had a sneaky taste and

 

[terrym]

The oily film could well be hop oils, especially if you have dry hopped with a lot of hops.
Finished brews often leave weird stuff floating on top but you usually leave that behind as you package the beer.
Otherwise it looks OK.
And if you have packaged into a PB check it's holding pressure by drawing a little off at about day 3, by which time there should be some pressure build up.
But perhaps for next time, IPAs are usually well carbonated like lagers, and PBs are not best suited to highly carbed beer styles, but are fine for low carbed beers like ales (all on the assumption that they dont leak )

 

[Moe]

The oily film could well be hop oils, especially if you have dry hopped with a lot of hops.
Finished brews often leave weird stuff floating on top but you usually leave that behind as you package the beer.
Otherwise it looks OK.
And if you have packaged into a PB check it's holding pressure by drawing a little off at about day 3, by which time there should be some pressure build up.
But perhaps for next time, IPAs are usually well carbonated like lagers, and PBs are not best suited to highly carbed beer styles, but are fine for low carbed beers like ales (all on the assumption that they dont leak )

Thanks, that’s good to know, I’ve not dry hopped with a large amount before. I used 100g for this brew (the MJ pack + 50g Amarillo).
The brew is in a corny keg carbonating, not a pressure barrel.

 

[terrym]

The brew is in a corny keg carbonating, not a pressure barrel.

Much better idea

 

[Fireside Ales Homebrewery]

The oily film could well be hop oils, especially if you have dry hopped with a lot of hops.
Finished brews often leave weird stuff floating on top but you usually leave that behind as you package the beer.
Otherwise it looks OK.
And if you have packaged into a PB check it's holding pressure by drawing a little off at about day 3, by which time there should be some pressure build up.
But perhaps for next time, IPAs are usually well carbonated like lagers, and PBs are not best suited to highly carbed beer styles, but are fine for low carbed beers like ales (all on the assumption that they dont leak )

Curse of the leaky Keg.

 

[terrym]

Curse of the leaky Keg. View attachment 27475

I think every PB should be stamped with that, a bit like a health warning on tobacco, with the words in large letters 'PBs are known to leak and cause users to suffer unnecessarily at inconvenient times'

 

[Tomm R]

I would be interested to hear how you’ve found this as I have been very tempted to have a go at this kit for a while, unfortunately last time I checked it wasn’t in stock. Sounds great.

 

[Moe]

I would be interested to hear how you’ve found this as I have been very tempted to have a go at this kit for a while, unfortunately last time I checked it wasn’t in stock. Sounds great.

It’s sat in the corny carbing up for two weeks now, I’ll let you know when it try it

 

[starseeker]

As a heads up, sodium percarbonate is for cleaning ,and for sterilising you would use starsan/chemsan /bleach etc .

 

[Edison]

As a heads up, sodium percarbonate is for cleaning ,and for sterilising you would use starsan/chemsan /bleach etc .

+1 for StarSan!

 

[Moe]

Been in the keg nearly 4 weeks now. It’s carbonated nicely, but it is still cloudy and tastes like homebrew.
It’s got a real strong smell and taste to it that can only be described as “homebrew”.
Not sure what I’ve done wrong, but it tastes nothing like Elvis Juice, which it is marketed as being inspired by.

This one might end up tipped away to make room in the keg for my AG Kveik Pale Ale.
This is rubbish as by the time I’d bought the malt extract and some extra hops it’s near enough £30 going down the drain.

I’ve got 4 bottles put away so I might keep those and test every month or so going forward to see if she changes it.