Help! White spots of doom

I brewed 3 gal of Tree Top apple cider w/wild blackberries 30 days ago. 4 days ago I racked into secondary to get rid of the leftover blackberry muck. I noticed today that there are white spots.

I picked the wild blackberries in the forest of Oregon and upon returning home, washed like hell and soaked in vodka for 1 hour. I added campden tablet at secondary, not at primary.

Hopefully it's not mold or something! Help! I haven't had issues using fruit, including garden picked, etc. before this. Sorry, the pic is fuzzy in places and those are water marks in the foreground. Thanks!

Looks like yeast islands to me, that may have gotten woken up when racked. If it still smells and tastes good I think your ok.

it is powdery. there is no off smell and it tasted quite nice during racking. it is bubbling infrequently, approx 1/minute.

That sounds like awoken yeast, your cider should be fine.

bad67z said:

That sounds like awoken yeast, your cider should be fine.

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I agree. Gave mine a swirl and same thing happened.

You're fine, I've had the same thing happen and panicked, turned out to be one of the best batches I made that year. Justt let it sit and have faith.

that's a relief. this recipe has yielded some really solid cider so i didn't want to have to dump it out. thanks.

It looks tasty, keep her.