This looks scary: Any Ideas?
 

About 7 days ago I transferred my 1st batch of beer from my primary fermentation bucket to a glass carboy.

The top of the batch is starting to look very ugly:
http://www.currentperspectives.org/distribution/beer.jpg

Any ideas?

Ingredients:
Hops:
US Fuggle
UK Pheonix

Malt:
Briess CBW Pure Malt Extract (Golden Light)
Crosby-Baker Weyermann Vienna (WEY6016)

Yeast:
White Labs WLP570 Belgian Golden Ale Yeast
Wyeast Yeast Nutrient

I agree that doesn't look good. Did your fermentation kick back up after your transferred? I'm sorry I can't help you with direct experience on this, but it does look mold-ish.

I think that is what wild yeast looks like.

Nice.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/post-your-infection-71400/

Whatcha got there is a bon-a-fide Infecshun!

Lactobacillus

Yup, infection

Doesn't look like lacto to me, I'd guess Brett (wild yeast).

hopefully you have another carboy kicking around and don't need this batch for anything in particular.

let it ride! check it out in a year.

Is it still drinkable? Tinga: Why wait a year?

Well that entirely depends on you. There aren't any human pathogens that can live in beer as far as I know, so it isn't going to hurt you. Whether it is palatable or not is another story. But people have had some weird, wacky things happen with infections.