Bacteria in the Beer

I found out today that something went horribly wrong in our last beer recipe. The bottles have been resting in a dark cool place where the remaining yeast is supposed to be carbonating the beer, so it isn't flat when we pop the cap and pour it in a glass.

While peering into the bottles to look for the signs of carbonation we found instead huge floating masses of bacteria! Seems that the yeast lost the battle to the bacteria. So much for this batch - we have to pitch it!

It occurred to what a wonderful metaphor for what's happening in the Country! Will the yeast lose out to the bacteria? I hope not. Otherwise we'll have to pitch the Recipe.