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Nope. No DME. Mold or other floating film.

I'm a little paranoid about that. When I was a kid, 30 years ago, my dad brewed a batch of root beer and had a chain reaction incident. I think like 6 or bottles went off at once. I have a little PTSD from the clean up. I store my bottles in big Rubbermaid bins with lids until they go in the fridge.

OK, I feel dirty. But I'm a grown up and can admit my failures and learn from them. I bottled a batch of citrus ale two weeks ago and now I have white rings of "stuff" floating in the necks of my bottles. I know what happened. I let the sanitized bottles sit overnight before filling. Dumb, I...

Went in the primary at 1.040. Fermenting started within 8 hours. Churning along nicely.

5 lbs extra pale malt extract 1 lb corn syrup 1 oz Brewers Gold 4 Clementine peels Expected O.G. 1.042 Expected F.G. 1.011 Super simple, quick brew. Add Orange peel at last 1 min of boil. On stove now. Will post sit rep later.

Pitched yeast on 7-22. Went in secondary on 7-27 after primary stopped bubbling.

White labs Kolsch.

Tastes and smells fine. Not too thin. SG went from 1.015 to 1.010. I'd bottle it now if it would quit moving!

OK. I'm back for some more reassurance. The above batch is still in the secondary and after more than two weeks is unchanged. Still looks exactly like the picture above. Fine white foam at top, with layer of hops above. Churning. Still OK?

Thanks for info y'all. I will keep watching it, more hopefully now.

Here's a picture. It's been in the secondary for a week. Lots of tiny bubbles and hops rolling around.

First off. Thanks for this forum!! Only been on a couple days and already hooked. That said. Help. I have an IPA in my secondary that is churning like crazy and has a layer of fine, white foam on top. It went in the secondary at .002 over FG so I didn't expect this much activity. I'm afraid...