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Offline reverseapachemaster

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Re: Is my beer ruined?!
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2014, 08:05:10 am »
It's infected but it might still taste ok. It will not kill you.

If it tastes ok then your best option is to bottle/keg now and drink until you run out or it stops tasting ok. Then dump it. No reason to drink unpleasant beer. Others may tell you to dump it now. Entirely up to you.
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Offline drunkenpuff

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Re: Is my beer ruined?!
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2014, 11:21:37 am »
So i tasted it today & decided to go ahead and keg. I left approx the top gallon in the carboy. Its acually a mighty fine tasting ale! I hope it stays that way!! I was unable to test for PH. Turns out the strips i bought YEARS ago....the scale only gives me up to 4.4! What the hale kind of brew store sells ya useless strips?!

Offline chumley

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Re: Is my beer ruined?!
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2014, 02:22:53 pm »
Quit saying it's infected!  It's not infected!  Those are yeast colonies!

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Re: Is my beer ruined?!
« Reply #18 on: June 04, 2014, 02:27:29 pm »
Quit saying it's infected!  It's not infected!  Those are yeast colonies!

could be. it's the way it looks like there are little cracks in the surface that makes me suspect something other.
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