So I just bottled a coffee infused black IPA on Sunday. Everything seemed to go normally. My sanitation is usually pretty good, not perfect by any means, but I usually only end up with a couple of gushers out of 5 gallons. Well I checked my bottles today and most of them have a line at the top of the bottle around the liquid fill line. Is this a sign of infection? I have noticed it happen on the other gushers I have had in the past. When I transfered to the bottling buckets I pulled some off to check FG and such and it tasted fine at that point. It was fermented with 1056. Could this line be from the yeast eating the priming sugars in the bottle? If its infected now, I know there's nothing I can really do. It just sucks to lose a whole batch. And I was going to enter it in my first comp., so much for that.
And then the earth cooled, comets brought water, and the ameoba crawled from the water and grew legs.... (sorry for the blog)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
McDur-Ham