Infected beer?

[Arealdrink]

Hello all.

I was about to put some finings in a small ale I brewed and noticed this opaque film on the top. I’ve never had a beer infected before and I am brewing with SO4 English ale yeast so I figure it has the potential to just be something weird with the yeast (I noticed there are still some small bubbles coming up under it.)

My question is do you all reckon this is still good to drink, or is it infected and just tip it?

 

[elmoMakesBeer]

How does it taste?

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Hello all.

I was about to put some finings in a small ale I brewed and noticed this opaque film on the top. I’ve never had a beer infected before and I am brewing with SO4 English ale yeast so I figure it has the potential to just be something weird with the yeast (I noticed there are still some small bubbles coming up under it.)

My question is do you all reckon this is still good to drink, or is it infected and just tip it?

Doesn't look good, but sometimes that can happen. Extremely hard to give an opinion remotely. Smell it and taste it, what temperature was your ferment at?

 

[justmat]

Looks a litttleee bit like a pellicle starting to form in between the yeast rafts, but it could just be a weird looking krausen. As WEAL said give it a smell and taste, could be fine, or, you might have an awesome mixed culture beer on your hands

 

[Arealdrink]

Looks a litttleee bit like a pellicle starting to form in between the yeast rafts, but it could just be a weird looking krausen. As WEAL said give it a smell and taste, could be fine, or, you might have an awesome mixed culture beer on your hands

I think you’re right about the pellicle because another beer I had been waiting to keg has developed it. Must’ve come from somewhere in the room I store the fermenters. I’ll give them a few weeks to develop and see what becomes of it. Cheers.

 

[clickeral]

I think you’re right about the pellicle because another beer I had been waiting to keg has developed it. Must’ve come from somewhere in the room I store the fermenters. I’ll give them a few weeks to develop and see what becomes of it. Cheers.

I had a similar one form in some bottles I did up, I cleaned everything possible as a source but it ended up being Brett