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Are these normal? It's twisted monk . I've asked about this before about some other beer but it still kind of worries me

i might be concerned if it smelled funky; otherwise ... seeing how it's HME with coriander and orange; not surprising to see flotsam ...

Yeah, don't worry about it with that HME. I recall them looking that way, too.

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Got ya thanks
Smells like sweet cider right now. And still bubbles a bit no bad smells



Now the hard cider I just did was smelling like rotten eggs but that's subsided mostly. And it's still bubbles like crazy I have got a while for it to be ready to bottle

Rotten egg smell isn't necessarily A bad thing during fermentation. Some yeast strains throw off sulfur but that goes away as fermentation finishes, as long as you leave it enough time to clean up.

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It's just hard to look at all the stuff floating in the fermenter and go WOW can't wait to drink that
Now I'm starting to understand it...

Kealia wrote:Rotten egg smell isn't necessarily A bad thing during fermentation. Some yeast strains throw off sulfur but that goes away as fermentation finishes, as long as you leave it enough time to clean up.

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Ty I just learned that on this forum thanks to all the replys, it was really bad the first week now it's not to bad at all still bubbles like a witch's cauldron.

I'm just leary of food poisoning I've had it a few times it's no fun at all but I've been reassured numerous times that unless I mess up the recipes the alcohol content should kill any bugs that will make you sick...

clay5769 wrote:It's just hard to look at all the stuff floating in the fermenter and go WOW can't wait to drink that
Now I'm starting to understand it...

Here if it makes you feel better, I drank what came out of this. This is what an actual infection looks like. In my case this is Brett C, a kind of wild yeast that lives in my house. Makes the beer taste like you added pinapple juice and strained it through some funky hay. What you have there are just normal floaters.

clay5769 wrote:I'm just leary of food poisoning I've had it a few times it's no fun at all but I've been reassured numerous times that unless I mess up the recipes the alcohol content should kill any bugs that will make you sick...

It is really almost impossible to get food poisoning from it, that's why fermentation is magic. People who get sick from fermented things either fermented in a vessel or with water contaminated with heavy metals or other toxic compounds (literally poisons but not the "food kind") or with ingredients that contributed to making the "wrong" kinds of alcohol (which is poison) - but somehow didn't manage to make a good amount of the "right" kinds of alcohol (which is actually an "antidote" for the poison kinds believe it or not). In your kinds of fermenters using the ingredients you are using this is literally impossible. You could make something that tastes like garbage, but even that wouldn't hurt you if you could stomach it.

mashani wrote:

clay5769 wrote:It's just hard to look at all the stuff floating in the fermenter and go WOW can't wait to drink that
Now I'm starting to understand it...

Here if it makes you feel better, I drank what came out of this. This is what an actual infection looks like. In my case this is Brett C, a kind of wild yeast that lives in my house. Makes the beer taste like you added pinapple juice and strained it through some funky hay. What you have there are just normal floaters.

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clay5769 wrote:I'm just leary of food poisoning I've had it a few times it's no fun at all but I've been reassured numerous times that unless I mess up the recipes the alcohol content should kill any bugs that will make you sick...

It is really almost impossible to get food poisoning from it, that's why fermentation is magic. People who get sick from fermented things either fermented in a vessel or with water contaminated with heavy metals or other toxic compounds (literally poisons but not the "food kind") or with ingredients that contributed to making the "wrong" kinds of alcohol (which is poison) - but somehow didn't manage to make a good amount of the "right" kinds of alcohol (which is actually an "antidote" for the poison kinds believe it or not). In your kinds of fermenters using the ingredients you are using this is literally impossible. You could make something that tastes like garbage, but even that wouldn't hurt you if you could stomach it.

Ty wow that picture makes my floaters look like hair in your coffee in comparison....

I now know what you mean about it being safe it's just some of the floaters look sooooooo bad but it's like some of the stuff I ate in the army horrible stuff but you had to sometimes plug your nose and eat or go hungry.

It won't kill you but some of the C-rations were absolutely disgusting a prime example ham and lima beans and add to that mostly had to eat them cold in field unless you got lucky and found a duce and half with a warm engine block to set it on with vent in can so it don't explode.....

And no that's not a can gone bad it's just looks like crap