Weird spots on beer. Mold?

This batch has been sitting in my secondary for about a week. Recently, these white spots have appeared on the surface of it and on the hops bag. I haven't seen anything like it before. The beer smells fine, and I drank some of it yesterday and am still alive. Does anyone know what's going on with my beer?



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To me it just looks like CO2 coming out of suspension...

Looks fine to me.

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I know this is horribly off-topic, but I think you should definitely get Kodak to frame that or make it into a mug, mini photo book, or mousepad.

I cant tell from the pic because I can't zoom it, but from that pic it looks normal to me...(but I do like how you can get that pic on a t-shirt and coffee mug!)

I've had beers go active in secondary, and flotsom gets kicked up from the bottom...it usua;;y settles back down.

Get the mug!!!!

It's normal. Most frequent if you dry hop or add something like fruit or spices to the secondary.

Rack around it and it will be fine.

Thanks for the advice. I ordered the t-shirt yesterday for me and my wife (just kidding). Actually, I went ahead and kegged the batch, and it has been fine. Once carbonated, I drank it in excecss (for experimental purposes), it tasted great and the results I experienced were not out of the ordinary.

If it smells like beer and tastes like beer.

It probably is beer.

What's beer? Where's beer? Free beer?

I think this looks ok from what I can see.

Off topic also, but I dry hop my beer the exact same way. Has anyone ever considered putting a well cleaned stainless steel table knife in the hop bag so that the bag will be more submerged in the beer?

When I have dry hopped, I notice about half the hops are sitting above the level of the beer, I figure submerging them completely might give more flavor.