Tom Caxton Yorkshire Bitter Infection?

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frany8472

Tom Caxton Yorkshire Bitter Infection?

Post by frany8472 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:02 pm

I kegged this about 4 weeks ago. after two weeks its was still extreamly cloudy and really orange, so i took the lid of the barrol, inside it seemed to be frothy with brown splodges on it. i added some finings put the lid back on and added a little C02 to re pressurize. anyway i tried again today, it hasnt changed a bit, still bright orange and really really cloudy. it tastes weird, very yeasty and every so slightly sour. shell i scrap it?
if its a infection is there anything you recomend doing to the barrol befor i put another brew in it?

Chris The Fish

Re: Tom Caxton Yorkshire Bitter Infection?

Post by Chris The Fish » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:18 pm

if you can post us pics it makes things easier. True signs of an infection can be a layer of white milky fluid on the surface or a visible build up on the surface which is sort of 'geometric' if you know what i mean.

If it is 'off' then the best plan is to ditch it, clean the barrell, then sterilise it using a thin bleach soloution, rinse x lots, then use your normal process (sodium met etc..) and proceed as normal, hopefully you will have killed all the nasties with the bleach.

Hope this helps

Chris

Aterlatus

Re: Tom Caxton Yorkshire Bitter Infection?

Post by Aterlatus » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:22 pm

When you put it like that it makes me wanna infect mine on purpose so I can have my bug-cube :P

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