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"Did you get this beer where Jack got his magic beans?" As mentioned, I've been dumping old batches. One was a WCIPA that I contaminated with an un-sanitized cup. Last week I dumped about 20 bottles, gushers. This week I started on the next case, but they didn't gush. So I tasted one, not bad. I chilled a couple. A bit oxidized, lost a lot of hoppiness, but not spoiled. Earlier samples were dark, overcarbed, cloudy with flakes, nasty bitterness. So how did this happen? Did my beer heal over time? It's hard for me to believe that half of my bottles were dirty. The only other thing I can think is that the infection was on top of the fermenter, and was only sucked into half of the bottles.
Another plus of dumping bad batches, I'm turning up the odd bottle from old batches. I even tried a Grand Bohemian Czech Pilsner (MrBeer). Not bad.

FWIW, an infection should not just live in the top half of the fermenter. IE a pellicle isn't the infection, it's a symptom of it - whatever is in there is in the whole batch.

Maybe a contaminant in the priming solution and/or it didn't get fully integrated into the wort, IE it stratified so different amounts of it got into different bottles.

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mashani wrote:FWIW, an infection should not just live in the top half of the fermenter. IE a pellicle isn't the infection, it's a symptom of it - whatever is in there is in the whole batch.

Maybe a contaminant in the priming solution and/or it didn't get fully integrated into the wort, IE it stratified so different amounts of it got into different bottles.

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Jeez

John don't drink the rest of those beers we don't want to lose you to some weird poisoning just dump them as you decided to do and move on; the best poisoners in history knew how to get past the King's tasters.

Yep, my next job is food taster. My wife is kind of the queen of our town.
Thanks guys. Bottle primed with sugar cubes. I suppose it could have had something to do with the bottling wand. It is a mystery. I'll call Nightline, or
Unsolved Mysteries.