That wasn't there last night!!

[bigdave]

This has appeared over night! I was going to keg it yesterday too!!! Should I go ahead and keg n just leave the top 2inches or give up and chuck it?

[Belter]

Perhaps if you leave it long enough it will jump into the keg on its own

[lovelldr]

You call that an infection:



Alto that was after I left an fv without cleaning for a couple of month, lol...

[bigdave]

Not risking it. Wanging the whole lot!

A week long bleach soak for this FV I think!!

[guypettigrew]

The infection must have been introduced by the bloke in the knitted hat who's obviously jumped into your FV and drowned!

Tough luck, though. Infections are a real pain.

Guy

[bigdave]

Peed off coz its a new hop n I was really excited to try it!

[neillf]

Bigdave, take a look at this: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60896
Have you tried a small taste? Cheers, N.

[bigdave]

It smells good!! Think ill sanitise a syphon, lift the hop bag out n keg it (all bar the last few inch).

[DC]

Hi Dave, that looks like the start of a Pellicle mate, I brewed a Berliner Weiss earlier in the year and I intentionally infected the beer to create a Sour Beer, see my post here viewtopic.php?f=24&t=56229 and it turned out to be a great beer. I wouldn't chuck it mate I would bottle it and leave the pellicle on the top and try not to disturb it too much when bottling.

Cheers DC

[crafty john]

Hi Dave, that looks like the start of a Pellicle mate, I brewed a Berliner Weiss earlier in the year and I intentionally infected the beer to create a Sour Beer, see my post here viewtopic.php?f=24&t=56229 and it turned out to be a great beer. I wouldn't chuck it mate I would bottle it and leave the pellicle on the top and try not to disturb it too much when bottling.

Cheers DC

+1 never chuck a brew until you have tried everything.

[Pinto]

...and I thought from the post title I was going to see a photo of 50 cornys

[bigdave]

I wish. lol

[bigdave]

Right, kegging this tonight. I was thinking of taking out the hop bag and putting a syphon through the hole it leaves in the 'skin' so as to avoid taking any of the bad shit into the keg.

I'm going to draw off a small cup full first to test and obviously I'm leaving the top few inches but assuming I'm unlikely to avoid transferring at lease some of the infection, how long have I got to condition and then sup this stuff?

[Andy]

Looks like the infection started at the hop bag. Did you do anything to try and sanitise it before using e.g. boiling, pressure cooker etc ?

[bigdave]

Boiled the bag for 15 min (although I got bored waiting so it was more like 7-10 min).