floaters in fermentor

[brianbrewed]

Started bottling my American Wheat Ale and saw this stuff floating on top.

Any ideas what it could be?

[Jacob]

Any ideas what it could be?

Yeast

[brianbrewed]

Phew.
Just been paranoid I guess

[biertourist]

More specifically: It's yeast in a wort that has been overdosed with kettle finings.

How much of what type of kettle finings did you add for what size batch?  (I'd say you're probably over even the dosage for a 10 gallon batch in your 5 gallon batch by the look of things...)


Adam

[brianbrewed]

I'm pretty sure I put in 4g of re-hydrated Irish Moss

[biertourist]

I'm pretty sure I put in 4g of re-hydrated Irish Moss

No whirlfloc?

I've seen yeast that looks exactly like that first hand and via numerous internet posts and so far 100% of the time it's been from overdosage of kettle finings.


Adam

[biertourist]

I'm pretty sure I put in 4g of re-hydrated Irish Moss

Yep 1- 2.5g is the recommended dosage for a 5 gallon batch.

Still 100% on this one, I'd say.


Adam

[johnrm]

First I heard about rehydrating Irish Moss (Well, second really.)
I usually lob it in at 10mins unhydrated.

Googling suggests rehydration 1hr-24hr before use.

I received powder form Whirlfloc recently which was recommended be rehydrate the night before the brewday too.

[LordEoin]

whirlfloc shouldn't need rehydrating but protofloc does