Milky looking beer, oh dear!

ignisdraconis · Post by **ignisdraconis** » Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 5:51 pm

I've been brewing a coopers wheat beer, with a brew booster and 500mls of honey and 22l of water. I started on sat night and had plenty of bubbles until today, tue. afternoon. When I used the hydrometer i noticed 2 things:
1) it was very pale in colour, almost as though it had milf in it and;
2) the reading was 1002.
Can anyone offer some advice, am I ok or stuffed, maybe leave it and see? I was sure I did it right this time:(

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 5:59 pm

Milf is not a bad thing, dont no about it in beer though

Rysa · Post by **Rysa** » Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 6:09 pm

I had nearly the same with my last lager but it bubbled well for nearly 7 days. Added some honey from the cupboard and it was too late when i saw the toast drip in with it. As i said bubbled well for a while then when i did a reading at 10 days it was at nearly 1.000 and was very pale(clear though, no milf's).
Bottled it and seems to be carbing up well but no sign of infection apart from the colour and my paranoia. Not ready yet but fingers and toes xsed.

ignisdraconis · Post by **ignisdraconis** » Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 7:06 pm

just to confirm, milk - not milf. It looks VERY pale, almost like milk has been put into it - thats my worry

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 7:12 pm

I have never done a brew with these exact ingredients but i gotta say it does not sound to good, has the fermenter been shaken/ stirred up at all from movement of any kind as in this case it could be the sediment but i doubt it, is it all the way through the brew or just at the top, if its only in the testing/hydro tube then it could once again be sediment and the only other things i can come up with is that its either an infection due to unsanitary conditions or someone has brocken in and poured milk in your fermenter ( the later i doubt very much)...

More info plz, how does it smell and taste, did you clear the tap ( if it is only in the tube) before taking your test sample??

Rysa · Post by **Rysa** » Tuesday Mar 20, 2007 7:16 pm

Not sure?, just stirring the milk. Still worried bout mine, know what you mean. Mine was really clear, no haze. Just the fact that it got toast in it scared me and the bloody low final reading.

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Wednesday Mar 21, 2007 8:50 am

I thought wheat yeasts were only weakly flocculating. So it sounds like suspended yeast to me. You did the usual thing of drawing off a small amount of beer and discarding before doing the reading, right? The first bit of beer you draw out has heaps of sediment in it.