What Are These Bubbles?

[quantocks]

hey guys,

first time I dry hopped a clone of Smurto's Golden Ale, left the amarillo pellets in secondary vessel (just threw in a handful) and now went to rack to keg tonight and noticed bubbles on top of the beer? any idea what it is? is it an infection ?

*edit*

actually it's got the same kind of white powder lining the beer level of the fermenter as did when I did my raspberry wheat, cause I used wheat malt with this, would that have any effect?

or would the infection of come back because I am using wheat again?

 

[Zwickel]

quantocks, is there a film/skin on the surface?

if yes, this could be a kind of wild yeast, we call it "Kahm-Hefe"

Cheers :icon_cheers:

 

[quantocks]

there was no skin which was weird, the only thing I did different was I racked the beer 4 days into fermentation into secondary fermenter. The ring around where the beer line was looks like flour stuck to the sides.

 

[tcraig20]

How does it smell/taste?

 

[hockadays]

doesn't look great but the taste / smell test is the only way to find out.

 

[boingk]

I've had something like this before. If it is what I had, the brew will be watery and smell like vinegar.

Bottle it an be prepared

- boingk

 

[bradmcm]

Looks like a classic case of acetobacter infection.

 

[Kai]

Yep, that's in-ding-dang-doodly-foodly-fected