Fermentation inferno!

[Tony Dyer]

Yikes! Look at this. It's a Belgian ale recipe. About 13 litres with 5g of MJ M41 Belgian Ale yeast. I've never seen a brew so lively and suspect some 'impurities' may have got in?

 

[Zoiks]

One of my favourite Tina Turner tracks.

 

[Tony Dyer]

??

 

[UKSkydiver]

 

[Slid]

Looks pretty normal to me, Tony.
Just leave it to do its stuff, for mine.

 

[Rodcx500z]

I have had brews like that, they all turned out fine

 

[Tony Dyer]

I'm reassured, thanks. It's now stopped churning and is bubbling away merrily. Very, very murky though.

 

[An Ankoù]

I'm reassured, thanks. It's now stopped churning and is bubbling away merrily. Very, very murky though.

Sounds exactly like my experience of last week with Westmalle/Westvleteren yeast. 20 litres in a 30 litre fermenter and it was still blowing through the airlock hole. Removed the airlock and bung and inverted a glass over the hole. Collected so much yeast on the top of the fermenter that I could (and should) have made a batch of bread with it. Settled down after a couple of days and recently drew off a sample to test gravity- 1010- and murky as hell.
Just bottled an earlier brew made with same yeast that wasn't quite so spectacular and, after a week in the cold, it was still looking like pea soup. i hope it's starting to clear in the bottles.

 

[chthon]

A picture of my current fermentation, 5g M41 in 11l wort, in a 17 l kettle, so about 2/3 filled, it seems I get another 3 to 4 l of kraüsen:

 

[MashBag]

It's fine. I have wilder than than. That's "healthy"