Chunky sediment in my Green Flash West Coast IPA

I’ve drank unfiltered beers but have never seen the chunks that came out of this bottle. Anyone ever see something like it before? They’re like the size of a pin head.

Nothing but a bit of left over yeast. Have never seen it with Green Flash before, makes me think your bottle has some age to it where it all settled out, or you got one of the first bottles from the batch. Nonetheless, just think of it as adding more nutrition to your beer!

If the beer tastes good it should be fine. It does sound like an older bottling - yeast is usually creamier when it’s younger.

Thanks guys. The beer tasted a bit off but that of course was after I saw the sediment. The other two bottles from the same four pack were free of gunk.

IPAs – especially those that have been dry hopped – are meant to be drunk fresh, so I suspect this bottle has been sitting around for awhile.

Now this makes me think about the issue differently. All the bottles should look the same. If not, it’s likely that there was some bacteria/yeast that got into the one “gunky” bottle - nothing that could hurt you, just make the beer taste off or bad (it probably would have gotten worse with time). I’ve had this happen once in about 200,000 bottles, so it’s rare.

Just had one last night. No chunks. Guess you were the lucky one. lol

So how is this for bizarre. I picked up a case of Green Flash West Coast IPA yesterday, and on the package it’s stamped that the beer was bottled in late April 2012. Absolutely no chunky sediment in any of the bottles.

A four pack I bought a week or so ago, has on the bottom of the bottle a stamp that says Bottled on May 23, 2012. HUGE chunks of sediment in all four bottles.

I have an email/call into Green Flash, more out of curiosity than anything else. What are the chunks? Why are they in some bottles and not others?

I’ll take photos of a ‘clean’ bottle and a ‘dirty’ bottle tonight. The difference is astounding. The latter looks so cloudy and nasty in comparison to the one sans sediment.