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11-04-2009, 10:21 PM
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Infection or not?
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So i just transferred a pale ale into a secondary on Saturday. just wanted to know if these look like a infection or just co2 bubbles...?
Let me know if you have any questions that will help answer this.. 
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11-04-2009, 10:44 PM
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What did you use to clean the 2ndary with?
I've had stuff that looks like this from Eazy Clean... it leaves harmless (well supposedly ) crystal residue behind that can end up looking like this... possibly... I look for 'tendrills', if you look side-on do they look like jellyfish or something from the cover of a YES album? Or are they just on the surface?
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11-04-2009, 11:00 PM
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They look like 'yeast rafts' to me. If you look really closely, are they a bunch of little bubbles that are all touching each other?
Unless you spit in it while you were racking it. Then it's an infection.
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11-04-2009, 11:06 PM
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It's beer AIDS. sorry.
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11-04-2009, 11:12 PM
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Doesn't look like an infection, I wouldn't worry about it.
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11-04-2009, 11:13 PM
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Looks fine to me, I dont think you have a problem
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11-05-2009, 12:50 AM
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ok yeah, i used OneStep to clean it.. just trying to use the rest of what i have because i have other better stuff. yeah its only on the surface, and it looks like really really small bubbles.
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11-05-2009, 12:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ReverseApacheMaster
It's beer AIDS. sorry.
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**** does this mean i can get people AID's? |
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11-05-2009, 12:52 AM
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Looks normal to me....just yeast rafts....yeast buoyed up to the surface from co2 rising out of the bottom... The most common new brewer "Is my beer infected?" syndrome. We get about a dozen threads like this a day...
It's called "noobitus."
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11-05-2009, 02:21 AM
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i'm sorry its just a worrisome thing when your a noob, dont wana mess up my first batch
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