Infected Pics?? :( please help

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Baumgartner

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This is my sixth batch of beer and I have not had anything like this before. I brewed the steam style kit by brewers best on June 3rd so this is at least 3 weeks in the primary. Usually my krausen falls back in or dries out like on the rim of the carboy. My concern is the white, mold like substance on the surface. I planned on trying to bottle on thursday, june 26th. I was going to under rack it so to leave the film behind. Any other ideas, suggestion, or experience with this would be greatly apprecited.

If infected do i still carb the same way?

Ps. I know not to dump unless it has been properly aged in bottles and still is absoulutly undrinkable.
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It doesn't really look like an infection - I've had krausen that just clumps and floats - pull a sample and take a taste. If it tastes normal - it's probably normal.
 
Here's my "is it infected?" mantra:

Don't you worry. Bout a ting. Cuz every little ting. Gonna be alright.


That's perfectly normal. It's just the Krausen Leavin's (not to be confused with Toaster Leavin's, my favorite Married...With Children term.) I bet if you rock your carboy back and forth gently, a bunch of it will fall.
 
It's normal...I call them "Krauzen Curdles." It's just the vestiges of the top part of the krauzen, the stuff that looks all brown, dried out and cruddy looking...It'll fall through eventually...Then it will be that ugly curdly stuff at the top of the yeast cake.

There's probably a fair amount of co2 keeping it suspended. You probably just caught a look at the carboy not to long after the bulk of the krauzen already fell, leaving that behind.
 
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