its worse than that, it's dead Jim

[Beardy]

It's been two weeks in the keg, so I decided that I should do a firs taste test. I cracked the tap, and nothing came out. So I refastened and reopened the tap to know avail. I took the top off the barrel, and there was no rushing of gas. It's as flat as flat can be. Worse than that, there are small cultures floating on the surface. No beer for Christmas then

Kit used
Standard 35ltr FV
Standard King Keg with Top tap
siphon tube for transfer.
All equipment was sterilised before use.

Ingredients
Woodford Nelson Revenge two tin kit
Kit yeast
2.5 oz of caster sugar for priming

With the benefit of hindsight there are a few things that I would not do again.
I pitched when the wort was very warm (Circa 29dC)
The FV was not in a very temperature stable environment
I took the SG of the Wort by placing the hydrometer into the FV (thought it was serialized)
I sucked on the siphon tube to get the siphon going
I put dry caster sugar directly into the barrel.

Somewhere along the line I've killed the yeast and as I did not take an initial SV reading I can't be sure if it was in the FV or Keg. Although t there was a layer of sediment (about 10mm thick) on the bottom of the FV and I did see evidence of initial vigorous fermentation and then slower fermentation whilst in the FV, so I suspect I killed it on the transfer.

Is there any point in skimming the mold off and trying to start secondary fermentation again?

 

[Sean_Mc]

Sorry to hear your problem

What was the OG and FG, also when you primed the keg did you leave it in the warm for a week?

 

[Beardy]

Sorry to hear your problem

What was the OG and FG, also when you primed the keg did you leave it in the warm for a week?

didn't take an initail gravity reading (my first kit for 20+ years) FG was about 1017. As for warmth. As warm as it can be in our house, eg near the fire. Thugh I think this might be where it went wrong ;'(

 

[Grumpy Jack]

Sorry to hear about the beer... but don't lose hope! :thumb:

 

[Mark1964]

Did you say you pitched yeast at 29 deg c

 

[Beardy]

Did you say you pitched yeast at 29 deg c

Yup that was what I said. Don't think it killed though as there was lots of foam initially.

 

[jamesb]

Did you say you pitched yeast at 29 deg c

Yup that was what I said. Don't think it killed though as there was lots of foam initially.

Should have been ok. I pitch that high occasionally.

 

[evanvine]

At 1017 the yeast appears to have done a lot of it's job, sounds more like your keg may have a leak.
Don't worry too much about the floaters, taste it, if ok regas.
I don't see anything wrong in what you did, except the variable temp!