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Infected bottles

Post by lord.president » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:50 pm

Opened my third bottle of infected stout tonight. Frothed up over the glass very rapidly,hell of a lot of yeast came out of the bottle. Smelt fine,but was really bitter after swallowing,to the point where it was down the sink. Any ideas if this would be wild yeast or something else? I di bottle it on the hottest day of the year! The other 30 odd bottles have been fine....
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Re: Infected bottles

Post by TC2642 » Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:16 pm

Did you batch prime or individually prime the bottles?
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Re: Infected bottles

Post by orlando » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:31 am

It could just be individual bottles that were infected. I have seen the inside of bottles which I thought were clean but had a slight film of "stuff" growing on the inside that I suspect are wild yeast that could produce the effect you describe.
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Re: Infected bottles

Post by lord.president » Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:39 pm

I batch primed with bog standard sugar in 250ml water. Only three bottles out of 40 so far,only got 10 left now...
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Re: Infected bottles

Post by 6470zzy » Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:57 pm

Sounds as though you had a few bottles that weren't quite clean.
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