Mold in my beer?

So I have had my brew in the secondary for a month now and I haven't looked at it for about two weeks. It was my first secondary attempt and i put a 5 gallon batch in a 6.5 gallon carboy. I hear there us probably a chance it will be oxidized. Is that true? I just looked at it and it looks like there is mold on the top. Is that normal?It would make sense being wet and room temp but I'm just not sure if it is a bad thing.

Post a picture and everyone will tell you whether or not you're infected.

don't fret racking into a secondary. the dissolved co2 in the beer as you rack gets released and creates that "warm and fuzzy co2 blanket" to help prevent oxidization. as Hitokiri said, posta pic and i'm sure someone can say yay or nay to your question.

i think it is normal. I just a beer in a secondary and there was green stuff floating in it. there was nothing green when i put it in the secondary though.

Here are some pics of the beer. Thanks for the input.

Looks like co2 and yeast but hard to really see the white spots. But I would think it looks normal to me. I have had similar things like that in my secondaries and they have all turned out fine.

dude...i don't know if that's a mold, but you DEFINITELY have a fungus growing in there. i've seen this before in my beer, and after further research, i've discovered it was the Saccharomyces fungus.

not much you can do about it now. i would let it sit for a couple more weeks and the bottle/keg.

i'm sorry to hear that your first secondary brewing attempts was infected with Saccharomyces. best of luck to you in the future.

brewski08 said:

dude...i don't know if that's a mold, but you DEFINITELY have a fungus growing in there. i've seen this before in my beer, and after further research, i've discovered it was the Saccharomyces fungus.

not much you can do about it now. i would let it sit for a couple more weeks and the bottle/keg.

i'm sorry to hear that your first secondary brewing attempts was infected with Saccharomyces. best of luck to you in the future.

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Dude...that means my beer is infected too.. :cross: yeah dude, that's normal for secondary racking. it's the yeast getting roused up again for "dessert" as i like to call it. totally normal =D

bmasyga said:

Here are some pics of the beer. Thanks for the input.

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Looks fine just floaters. If you are worried bottle now and rack from under it.

its infected with fungus for sure... you can just bottle it up and send it to mii for disposal...

edmanster said:

its infected with fungus for sure... you can just bottle it up and send it to mii for disposal...

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Improper treatment for such an obviously tainted batch. I doubt your certification in this field of disposal.

It needs to sit in the current vessel for a couple of weeks, then carefully and with upmost sanitation, transferred to bottles after appropriate sugar add, then gently stored in a mild dark place for two weeks. Upon proper safe handling procedures outlined above, call me, and for a nominal fee, plus expenses, I will gladly remove said contaminant from your premisis and dispose of properly.

It does not seem to be mold to me too but its surely the fungus and i guess it won't settle down on its own infact it would keep growing.

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Yup, it's obviously a fungus infection: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Saccharomyces

Sacharomyces cervatia...brewer's yeast. Just left over krausen & yeast floaters.

C'mon, dudes this is the beginners forum. You remember stressing over your beer in the early days, Right? Running down at 3AM because it was making strange noises, trying to remember the correct ratio for starsan. Have a heart.