what happened my IPA

[Simon]

Just thought I would add the name for the skin is a pellicle and  Unless you plan to carry it over to a sour beer project I would personally get rid of it.

[Tom]

Not at all. This isn't a persistent infection at all. Clean and sanitise as usual and reuse.

Even if it's old and smelly you can still use it for storage, boiling, whatever.

[Simon]

Was talking about the beer not the equipment

[Tom]

Ah. It'll be fine if drunk reasonably quick.

[Simon]

No thanks. Would rather not have the s*%ts thanks lol

[LordEoin]

Bottle them up anyway, let them condition, drink a few in a night and see.
Worst case scenario you can just empty the bottles.
No point in chucking the lot if it might be fine

[Eoin]

The lack of body and the skin is an infection alright.... I throw that shit away, best not to keep it in the brewery at all. I also think the concept of waiting on bad beer to improve is a load of toss.

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[mr hoppy]

It depends on what's wrong with it (say acetaldehyde), but if it's infected drink it while it's drinkable, or dump it.

[marc]

great reading here, am learning loads from ye.

I think I'll probably order some starsan and another IPA kit. I'll probably bottle 5 or 10 bottles maybe of the stuff outside just to see what its like in a week or three and chuck the rest of it.. mark it down as a learning experience..

regarding the heat mat. what I actually have is one of those mats from a reptile vivarium. I have an old fridge then where i do my brewing. usually I just kept the mat at the back rather than under. I never had a thermometer so once I was it bubbling away I never was too worried about temperature. I got one of those stick on thermometers with my last order and as the temp was looking to be around 20deg i thought it was a little low and stuck the mat under it.

regarding secondary, i usually would not bother with secondary and would bottle straight from primary after leaving for a while to make sure fermentation was finished. i was having trouble with reliable carbonation though so wanted to bottle from a secondary as advised. i didnt think there was a need for the heat mat for secondary but at the same time i didnt think it would do any harm either.

[Tom]

No thanks. Would rather not have the s*%ts thanks lol

beer doesn't harbour pathogens.

[Simon]

You can drink curdled milk to if you drink in quick enough doesn't mean i'm going to drink it

And as far a pathogens.....well i'm not going to sit here and argue the toss with you cos it already looks like you know better. Cheers

[Simon]

Lol

[mr hoppy]

Genuine question, any one ever had a "reaction" down below to drinking an infected beer?

[Eoin]

Genuine question, any one ever had a "reaction" down below to drinking an infected beer?

Nope, but I only did that as a noob. Now it gets dumped if it happens.
I did once get autobrewery syndrome and was in a bad way with gas and suits for about five days until my stomach sorted itself again.

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[mr hoppy]

Suits?