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I have brewed off and on for 20 years or so, and have never had an infected batch, until now, I think.
I boiled a wart of German Kolsch style beer (using extract and a Kolsch Ale yeast from Austin Homebrew Supply) 4 weeks ago. Everything looked great from the get-go. The fermentation started within hours and was very active for about 4 or 5 days then settled. Everything seemed very healthy to me. Two weeks later I racked it into the carboy. After about 10 days in the carboy I began to see some white foam appearing on top of the batch. About a day or two later I heard the first gurgle in my airlock. Two days later, tonight, it is gurgling every 30 seconds, and the foam on top has blanketed my batch. Also, white stringy looking man-of-war-like tentacles that I've read about in another thread here may be appearing.
I pulled the airlock momentarily, and took a whiff. It smells like really good German Kolsch beer...
I've attached photos.
Can someone tell me if this batch is a gonner, or if I can salvage it?
I boiled a wart of German Kolsch style beer (using extract and a Kolsch Ale yeast from Austin Homebrew Supply) 4 weeks ago. Everything looked great from the get-go. The fermentation started within hours and was very active for about 4 or 5 days then settled. Everything seemed very healthy to me. Two weeks later I racked it into the carboy. After about 10 days in the carboy I began to see some white foam appearing on top of the batch. About a day or two later I heard the first gurgle in my airlock. Two days later, tonight, it is gurgling every 30 seconds, and the foam on top has blanketed my batch. Also, white stringy looking man-of-war-like tentacles that I've read about in another thread here may be appearing.
I pulled the airlock momentarily, and took a whiff. It smells like really good German Kolsch beer...
I've attached photos.
Can someone tell me if this batch is a gonner, or if I can salvage it?