What do you make of this

[seanipops]

I brewed my first attempt at a parti-gyle brew a fortnight ago (info here if you're interested). All went pretty well and I dry hopped the brews last weekend. Got up yesterday morning and saw this in the small beer.

I've asked a number of both home and pro brewers what it is and I've been told the following:

Acetobacter
Aerobic infection
Scum caused by high alpha dry hops

I took advice and racked the beer off into a sterile cornie gassed up and purged. The FV looked like this post rack.

The plan was to transfer to a second cornie in a week but I thought I'd have a sneaky taste, just for QC purposes you understand. It tastes pretty good and not infected, the aroma isn't all that but I think that is down to the hops used (Sorachi & Citra).

What would you do, and can anyone else shed some light as to what it might be?

Sean

 

[prolix]

Sean

I laughed when I saw this I am sorry but this takes brew porn to the wrong level :rofl:

infections tend to be stringy when you drag them across the surface that looks like it broke up so could be alpha acids, time will tell.

 

[dennisking]

Never seen anything like that before.

 

[seanipops]

Ha, brilliant.

Didn't see that coming

I'll get my coat......
:rofl:

 

[unclepumble]

Is the black thing
1 a Hop bag
2 a black pudding
3 a sea cucumber
4 Your Mums Tights tied up and filled with something? :shock:
5 something else?

I have never seen a scummy white mess like that either.

UP

 

[snail59]

The Grey bits floating look exactly like the lime scale we get in our Kettle :wha:

 

[Muddy Funker]

I bet £1.50p Aleman will know

 

[unclepumble]

I suppose it could quite easily be a yeast infection, If the black thing in the picture is an old pair of tights. :sick:

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[dennisking]

I suppose it could quite easily be a yeast infection, If the black thing in the picture is an old pair of tights. :sick:

UP

Doesn`t even beat thinking about. :shock:

 

[Aleman]

I'd go with a wild yeast infection

 

[seanipops]

Thanks for all the replies, the big black thing is a knee high stocking (six for £1 in Tesco) which I use for dry hopping.

I racked the beer off into a cornie and think I may have rescued it. Beer tastes lovely but a bit sharp which you would expect for a young beer with citra in.