Does this look infected?

MickDundee · Mar 17, 2016

I did my first AG at the weekend (so this is day 5) and hadn't heard much activity from the airlock (because my temp probe is sharing a hole in the lid with the airlock) so I thought I'd take a gravity reading.

Opened the FV and didn't really need to take a reading due to the beery smell. However, the top of my beer looked like nothing my kits ever did.

It's probably just the end of the krausen subsiding combined with some stray hop pellets, but I'm a bit paranoid because I had troubles cleaning my FV (it stank of beer when I took it out the shed 2 weeks ago and it took me about 3 attempts to get the smell away - which I eventually managed using about a 1:4 bleach:water solution) and I wasn't sure how to clean my wort chiller (all I did was run a couple of kettles of boiling water over it, although the heat of the wort should have killed anything too).

What do you think? It is a pretty rubbish picture but it's the best I could do from inside my brew cupboard. Those things that look like mold spores are more like bubbly bits of wort.

YeastFace · Mar 17, 2016

Looks like yeast rafts to me, which are fine.

What yeast was it?

GHW · Mar 17, 2016

Bit hard to tell but there's nothing there I would be too concerned about. Mould tends to look more like a skin. That looks like hop debris and yeast flocculating

Leon103 · Mar 17, 2016

That looks fine, did the kit include hops? Looks a little like hop oil

MickDundee · Mar 17, 2016

YeastFace said:
Looks like yeast rafts to me, which are fine.

What yeast was it?

Just this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Youngs-Beer-Yeast-Sachet-5g/dp/B0026WZA3C

I "inherited" a big unopened bag of malt from the person I bought my 2nd hand equipment from so I was going as cheap as possible just to check the grain was ok.