Dear all,
I’m a new homebrewer from Barcelona (Spain) and I’m facing some problem with my third batch of all grain beer. I’m trying to brew a Belgium clone I’ve found on the net (a trippel karmeliet).
The malts and sugar were for a 20 L batch
Pilsner malt 5000gr
Wheat malt 900 gr
Flaked oats 115gr
Flaked barley 115gr
500gr candy sugar
Mash 66ºC for 90 min, it cooled down to 64ºC at the end of mash
15 gr sweet orange peel 5 min
15 gr coriander 5 min
15 gr Styrian goldings 90 min
15 gr Styrian goldings 45 min
28 gr Saaz 15 min
28 gr Saaz 15 min
Fermentation 1 week with dry yeast (I do not remember now the type but it was for belgium ales)
Everything went fine with the fermentation and after a week I moved the beer to a 5 l plastics bottels in order to minimize oxigen content on the top of the beer. After 2 weeks I carried out a dry hopping with 1.5 oz of saaz for 7 days. When I went to transfer my beer I found out some residue on the top of the beer like a snoty cloud. Then I decided not to bottle my beer, I just removed the saaz hop (it was in a bag) and I left the beer for an extra week (just to see what´s going wrong). I’ve tasted the beer and I can’t find any weird taste also it does not smell bad.
Could anybody help me to identify what´s worng with this beer? It´s contmaination?
My plan is to transfer the beer for bottling today but without removing the botom part of the plastic bottels (were all the residue rests) and see what happens then.
Thanks a lot