Shine wrote:I've poured out three batches of gb and its kind of annoying. In each of the batches, I got this really scuzzy looking bubbly scum across the top of the wort and it stopped fermenting; last reading 1.020. During the first batch, the scuzzy crap foamed out of the air lock and made the top of my nice clean fermenter look like a baby's nappy after three weeks of mashed carrots and green beans. I'm not quite sure what to do about this. Thoughts?
Last recipe:
Coopers can and yeast
1 kg raw sugar
100 g dark brown sugar
Are there any other decent kits out there. When I took my OG, I tasted it and you can taste the artificial sweetener. I don't need sugar free. I'm not on a diet! I want punch baby!
bubbly looking scum on top doesn't mean it's gotten infected or is no good! I doubt you have had 3 infected batches of ginger beer.
I think getting infections are alot harder to get than we might think. Unless it smells and tastes very bad I wouldn't suspect its infected.
bubbly looking scum is very normal for alot of washes. The only washes I've had that havn't had a bubbly scum on top have been grain based.
I would re think throwing out any wash and make sure it tastes bad first.
I actually hope your last 3 were infected! because I would be gutted if I threw out 3 batches of liquid gold for nothing!
Posted: Thursday Nov 19, 2009 7:14 am