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So I made the all-grain Chocolate Hazelnut Porter from Morebeer.com, and fermented with a packet of S-04. Seemed like everything went fine, I did not add anything to the water, my efficiency was normal for my system, and I taste no infection. But there is a large milky white ring around the fill line of every bottle of this stuff. It goes away after refrigeration for a few days, but it's still unsightly. I also get a bit of a milky taste in the final beer. Could this be from not using my grain soon enough after I got it from B3? It came crushed and i didn't get a chance to brew for a good 3 weeks. I do not taste any off flavors besides the milkyness, which could also just be the chocolate or the hazelnut flavoring.
My other thought would be that I had a ton of sediment in the fermenter, and I could have not gotten good enough hot or cold break, resulting in more proteins.
Any thoughts?

If you have ring around the fill line you can be 100% sure that it's a bacterial infection - even if you like the beer.

But if it goes away when chilled...that seems like it could be something else. Maybe it has something to do with the choc. I'm not familiar w/ that kit but if it has a bunch of choc in it, it may be some sort of lacto reaction.

Poured it out. It was a pretty shitty beer anyway. I don't think I'll use dry yeast again, I'm 0 for 2.