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jwhite751
After 10 years of on again/off again brewing I finally had my first totally unusable batch. I was making a simple American Light with liquid and dme . I cleaned and sanitized as usual and used the dried yeast supplied with can. I noticed after 24 hours slow but steady yeast activity but it never developed a foamy head in the carboy. After 1 week of slow activity I added a smack pack with no noticable change in activity.
My hydrometer reading after over 2 weeks was still 1.025. The wort at this time did not smell bad so I bottled it. I did notice when I added the priming sugar to the carboy that the whole thing started to foam for about 5 seconds which I thought was strange. After 24 hours in the bottle I got to thinking I might have made bottle bombs instead of beer so I opened 1. It gushed up out of the bottle and had a bad smell. Needless to say I threw the whole batch out. All were infected. Iam assuming poor sanitation was the culpret but I thought that would show increased activity , not less. Does anyone have a clue about what might have gone wrong?
My hydrometer reading after over 2 weeks was still 1.025. The wort at this time did not smell bad so I bottled it. I did notice when I added the priming sugar to the carboy that the whole thing started to foam for about 5 seconds which I thought was strange. After 24 hours in the bottle I got to thinking I might have made bottle bombs instead of beer so I opened 1. It gushed up out of the bottle and had a bad smell. Needless to say I threw the whole batch out. All were infected. Iam assuming poor sanitation was the culpret but I thought that would show increased activity , not less. Does anyone have a clue about what might have gone wrong?