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Re: Infection

Postby Yummyrum » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:24 pm

That sucks bs,

I have never done whiskey gens before but after once having a bad Rum ferment ,I always keep a spare bucket of Dunder ( Backset) . Not sure what percentage of backset you use but there is always some left over in Rum making .
It means that I only have to go back a gen if shit happens again
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Re: Infection

Postby bayshine » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:37 pm

Yer I do to but I've just moved house/town and this one was starting from fresh :angry-banghead:
Oh well l I got some safspirit yeast and some golden promise today
And am cookin up a new as we speak :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Infection

Postby MacStill » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:46 pm

bayshine wrote:I bagged all the grains up an binned em
And the garbo left me a sticker saying the bins to heavy :angry-banghead: ~x( :violence-smack:


:laughing-rolling:
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Re: Infection

Postby GalBrew » Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:54 pm

Frothwizard wrote:That's amazing....how does that even happen???

I do all my washes in a similar barrel after I've put a few scoops of napisan w/ water in it and rolled it around for 2 minutes...never had issues like this.

I always figured the alcohol content after 3 days fermentation would be enough to kill anything after that.


As a brewer I can tell you that your cleaning regime is totally inadequate. Nothing wrong with the napisan part for cleaning, but you need to sanitise. Sure your cuts will not get infected, but the was sure will. You are very lucky to not have any issues thus far. Go and get some Starsan, easy to use and you can reuse it plenty so it's quit cheap.
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Re: Infection

Postby MacStill » Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:03 pm

starsan ?

sterilizing ?

WTF :))

Different ball game here mate, you beer brewers crack me up :teasing-neener:
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Re: Infection

Postby bayshine » Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:14 pm

Yer we'll I'd left this one sit for three weeks while I was away at work
Never had this problem befor, but was bound to happen one day :think:
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Re: Infection

Postby Zak Griffin » Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:32 am

My last rum wash got pretty manky... I scooped most of the crud off the top, siphoned the wash into the boiler and added a bucket of boiling water to the lees... Killed the infection, and the yeast... Pitched new yeast with the new gen and we're all good!

My old man (home brews beer...) keeps trying to tell me that I've gotta sterilise everything... Dreamin'!
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Re: Infection

Postby Yummyrum » Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:58 am

Found this in my boiler. Its the Backset from my WBAB run on the weekend......yeah I know slack shit should have tipped it out then :violence-smack:

At the center of each spiderwebby looking thing is a vinegar fly

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Re: Infection

Postby Urrazeb » Sat Apr 12, 2014 6:21 pm

bayshine wrote:And to top it of, I bagged all the grains up an binned em
And the garbo left me a sticker saying the bins to heavy :angry-banghead: ~x( :violence-smack:

Thats shit... :handgestures-thumbdown:

I have had this infection before, as far as I can remember the product turned out ok. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Infection

Postby timebomb » Fri Apr 18, 2014 11:25 am

I had this same infection a couple weeks ago, strangely the wash was fine and i ran in. I tipped about 5 L of water on my grains and yeast and left overnight while waiting for backset to cool. I woke to this in the fermenter.
Am i right in thinking that it was from not running the wash quick enough (had it sitting around for a while)...and was probably lucky the wash had not got it firs?
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Re: Infection

Postby ako1978 » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:17 pm

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i think my 1st go at all grain has an infection :crying-blue:
traditional app shine recipe, followed it perfectly, was bubbling nice for the first 4 days then the cap disolved and this formed stuff formed. but its still bubbling away underneath
i hope its still ok to run :crying-blue:
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