What is going on with my brew?!

[Kierenj]

Hi guys,

I'm wondering whether this is normal? I'm used to fermenting in buckets so usually can't see whats going on in there. Yesterday I bought a 7litre glass jar so I can do smaller batches.

So the brew went well, everything sterilised and timed right. Added irish moss 15mins left of boil. After cooling to wort I syphoned it into the FV through a sediment catcher. I checked the temperature and it was at 32C so I left pitching the wort until I got home from work 8 hours later. Then when I uncovered the jar I found these brain looking strands in the wort. Confused and tired I thought if I add yeast maybe it will sort itself out in a couple days?

So I went ahead and added the yeast. Woke up this morning and the strange strands have shrunk a bit but not fully.

I checked lots of threads but cant find any explanation.

Is this normal or have I messed up somewhere along the line?

Worth noting it was a one hour brew, at the start i added light spray malt with 3 hop additions throughout the brew.

Hopefully you can see the photo I've attached.

Please help :)

 

[Fil]

perfectly fine A VERY healthy sign ..

its the yeast if you had used salsafe us-05 you could be watching a mini lava lamp with 2-3" eruptions from the bottom.

its the 'floctuant' nature of the yeast your seeing, they clump together and when co2 is produced the bubbles form and also stick to the yeast clumps, and drags some up towards the top as it rises.

some yeast strains are more floctuant than others , just relax and enjoy the show..

 

[Kierenj]

Mind is at ease! Not used to watching through glass.

Thanks

 

[Tanzanite]

When you see an eye ball winking at you through the glass its time to worry :wink::wink::wink:

 

[TheQuokka]

It looks like the break material coagulated by the Irish moss. Many take care to take the beer off the top when transferring to the boiler, and I do now I have a proper one, but left it in for many years and never detected an issue when I was partial mashing.