funk in the fermenter

[RickWG]

did you ever brew up a beer and think it went ok and then after you put it in the fermenter and oxygenate/pitch yeast, seal it up, look at it with a satisfied smile....and come back after the foam has settled and say "What the heII is that floating in my beer?

Wife got me an extract ESB and I cooked it up today.

Two things kind of weird. I did a full boil and one of the first things to come out of the spigot was a black chunk of something. Figure I burned a little LME. That's why I don't use LME.

second thing is there is a scary piece of something floating in my fermenter. Figure it is a piece of the steeping grain that got in there.Kinda white and jaggady looking. Like popcorn-ish.


Everything was cleaned. The spigot was rinsed out. The heat would have sterilized everything so I figure it's not going to kill the beer. Just troubling is all.

 

[nos33]

Are you asking a question or making a statement? I is confused

 

[RickWG]

Kind of both. Im worried about possible blackyeast infection (through a boil)
the burnt sugar thing doesn't bother me too much yet.
sorry so brief. On cell phone and my" friend" who doesn't care about beer is giving me crap.

 

[unionrdr]

Could just be a bit of burnt LME,it's not hard to do if you don't babysit the boiling wort. Even DME's can burn,my electric stove always browns a very small amount on the bottom of the pot in the shape of the heating coils. Maybe a small chunk of undissolved DME,they can look sorta like popcorn. Yeast can clump up like that too.