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Offline Tofito

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Color changing beer
« on: September 07, 2015, 07:21:27 am »
Hi,

Last June i brewed a sort of "summer pale" (a bit of wheat and oats, simcoe and summer hops, english yeast) that had great success.
My problem is that now, 3 months later, the beer is realy darker like purple-ized. It only affects some bottles, others are OK, and in the affected bottles the yeast slury is realy purple!

Here are some pictures:

Normal color:


Changed color:

Slury:


It doesn't taste like infected, no acidity at all. It is just a little astringeant and hops flavor and aroma are lower than "normal" bottles.

What do you think may cause that??

Offline dkfick

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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 08:12:21 am »
Oxidation will cause a beer to darken and get more 'dull grey in color'... Not sure what's going on with the purple.
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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 08:30:56 am »
Sometimes I think there are people out there who sneak into our houses and do crazy stuff with our beer to mess with us.
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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 08:49:35 am »
Sometimes I think there are people out there who sneak into our houses and do crazy stuff with our beer to mess with us.
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Offline Tofito

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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2015, 09:11:45 am »
Hypotheses:

- Oxydation: A pre-botling oxydation would affect all the bottles. The whole batch is bottled the same way, so all bottles would be affected. Post-bottling oxydation??

- Sanitation process failure: I use to wash my bottles directly after pouring, so they are quite clean. Then just before bottling I sanitize the bottles with Chemipro Oxi (sodium percarbonate) and have never had any problem with it. Admitting some bottles have been unsufficiently sanitized.. what could cause this coloration??

- Anything else I could suspect?

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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 09:27:21 am »
I had that happen to exactly one bottle in one batch four or five years ago. All beers were a nice blonde color and then I opened one and it was straight pink. People I've told this to insisted somebody added food coloring to the bottle when I wasn't looking but nobody else was in the house when I bottled and I opened the bottle myself.

No idea how this happened.
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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2015, 01:04:55 pm »
I had that happen to exactly one bottle in one batch four or five years ago. All beers were a nice blonde color and then I opened one and it was straight pink. People I've told this to insisted somebody added food coloring to the bottle when I wasn't looking but nobody else was in the house when I bottled and I opened the bottle myself.

No idea how this happened.

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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2015, 03:47:25 pm »
I wonder if it's the caps. Maybe the lacquer or rubber seal wasn't sufficient and it caused some sort of tarnishing.

Offline Tofito

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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2015, 03:53:37 pm »
I suspected the caps too, but same caps pack for a previous batch didn't make any color problem...

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Re: Color changing beer
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2015, 04:19:25 pm »
Sun spots?

Goonies?

Moogwa?

Seriously, I have no clue.  I can tell you it wasn't the Greys.  I asked and they swear they were never in your house.  They did say the cookies were good.

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