Another 'is this infected?' thread

[lovelldr]

Hi.

Started a Coopers ginger beer on Thursday. Made a few alterations, adding some lemon, more ginger, chilli, cinnamon, etc boiled up.

All seemed fine. Friday morning, was a good fermentation find by looks of it. Went in today to have a look, and smell was good, but looked weird. So, opened up, and was greeted with this:



Now, never seen a ferment go like this, but it may well be normal. Only really ever done beers and lagers, so not sure whether ginger beer would be different, but the big bubbles are worrying me.

Any thoughts and/ideas?

Cheers

[simco999]

Suggest you put the lid back on. Looks fine - its pretty vigorous and the size of the bubbles is probably down to the density of the wort.

[lovelldr]

Cheers. Just the sort of reassurance I was looking for.

Lid back on and left to continue fermenting

[Ditch]

Infection?! Jesus! If I opened a lid and saw that? I'd photograph it too. Then I'd bring it here and say; " Hey, guys! Look at This Bad Boy go! " F**k yeah!

That stuff looks like ye boiling it! Amazing!

But, infected ....? Never drink beer with ye eyes. Taste will always tell. It really is that simple

[mickhew]

To echo... that is normal fermentation. Bubbles, funny smells, weird looking shit floating on top of the wort, all normal.

[lovelldr]

Cheers for the reassurance guys. Was just the washing up liquid looking bubbles that made me worry a bit.

Roll on a couple of weeks so I can open it up again and take a taste of it