Infected Wash

[Skid20]

After fermenting a Cranberry Orange wash for a week, I let it settel out for another week. When I look at the plastic fermentor I could see a darker band at the top (2-inch) and the settelment at the bottom. I opened it and it looked like rootbeer with some minor floaters on top.

Is this wash garbage? Can I salvege the wash in the middle or just through the whole 25 gal out and start over?

[aircarbonarc]

How does it smell?

[yakattack]

You really need to give more information. Recipe. Protical, time frame
Current sg. O.g. you started with. Is it sweet or sour?

[jb-texshine]

Poke the dark stuff,is it jelatenous?smell live vinegar,vomit,or puke? Got fuzzy shit on top? Could it be that it hasn't finished clearing yet?

[Skid20]

Started with 10 lbs of cranberrys and 10 lbs of oranges, froze them both, removed peels from oranges and put in blender to pulp, also pulped cranberries added water heated to 90 deg and into the fermentor. Inverted 25 lbs of suger and dumped that into fermenter. Made a starter then pitched 230 grams of redstar and it took off pretty good. after 3-days I found a bag of oranges I forgot to freeze and just quarted them up, squeezed them and put them in the fermentor rinds and all (possible mistake there). Next day it the air lock quit bubbiling.

I adjusted the ph at the begining to 6 had a SG of 1.045. Day five I checked the SG at 5-days and it was at 1.004. The ph was a bit high so I adjusted to the 5/6 range and repitched, ran a day and stalled or finished. ABV shoud have been higher than 5.40. fermenter temp is about 85.

Resopose to comments:

It dosent smell or tast bad under the band. I have note tasted the darker stuff.
Its full setteled as there are no suspended particals other than the small off color floaters.
I did rack off the wash onder the band and ended up with about 15gal.
It is not jealatinous

Should I just run it and see how it tast????

[jb-texshine]

I'd run it all.

[Pikey]

Sounds as tho' it has fermented some. I note no mention of any nutrient for the yeast and a ph of 6 ?

TAste it - if bitter - run it.

[Edit - is that band a coating on the fermenter ? I'd say if it is, it's probably a deposit from oils in the orange peels ? ]

[Jes2xu]

Yeah dude, fermentation can kick up all sorts of weird ass stuff.
It doesn't mean its bad. The sniff test is always my go to on that kind of thing. Look for mold / vinegar / vomit type smells.

And agree about the band if its on the fermenter especially.

Good luck

[Skid20]

Yeah dude, fermentation can kick up all sorts of weird ass stuff.
It doesn't mean its bad. The sniff test is always my go to on that kind of thing. Look for mold / vinegar / vomit type smells.

And agree about the band if its on the fermenter especially.

Good luck

Its a layer of dark and it dosnt smell bad. The small floaters could have been mold, just too small to tell.. Ima run it and see how it taste

Thanks to all.

[Jes2xu]

Awesome man. Hope it turns out amazing!

The more you explain it the more I think you are totally fine