Does this fermentation look normal?

I hate asking this question because I know that every fermentation is different, and I know I should RDWHAHB (which I am sadly out of). But...I've never had a fermentation look like this before and its kind of a putting off a bit of a funky oder. It smells kind of sour, for lack of a better word.

It's a honey blonde ale using WLP060. I brewed in Saturday, fermentation started sometime on Monday. It's been sitting in a cooler of water and the temperature has been around 68 according to the thermometer on the carboy.

Edit: I just took a look, there's more white foam in the krausen compared to this picture.

it almost looks like soap. I have never seen that before...I know thats not much help ,

FlySpargeVorlauf said:

it almost looks like soap. I have never seen that before...I know thats not much help ,

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Looking like soap was my thought as well. That made me think I didn't rise my carboy out well enough. But, there's no soapy smell.

It is just krausen and break material. Looks fine to me.

carnevoodoo said:

It is just krausen and break material. Looks fine to me.

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What Derek said.

flyangler18 said:

What Derek said.

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+1 I agree; it looks normal to me.

Yup... break material, yeast, CO2 bubbles, and hop pellets. Perfectly fine. It'll all drop out in a few days!

looks alright to me

just fermented a hefe that looked almost exactly like that... came out great!

Fine to me as well!

deathweed said:

looks alright to me

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Howdy, neighbor

I figured it was OK, but sometimes n00bs like myself need reassurance.

This is a good example of why plastic buckets are better than glass

JMSetzler said:

This is a good example of why plastic buckets are better than glass

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No way I love to see the crazy stuff that goes on during fermentation.

Give it a few days and it will settle down, looks good to me though.

My last fermentation looked just like that. It's fine.

Looks great!

What's normal?

I've had several batches look like that, so I would say it's "average".