Infection?

Well 2 1/2 years under my belt, this is my butternut squash pumkin spice beer.

its been in the primary for 4 weeks and has been fine. i boiled a tsp of all spice in a cup of water for 10 minutes, cooled and added to beer. a few days later, today i get this......

white bubbles and a white film, sorry for the crappy cell phone pic.

it must have gotten in there when i put the all spice in?

is the kind of infection i can still keg and rack from underneath? i haven't tasted it yet but smells like beer.

rack now or for the next 2 years hold your peace

If it smells like beer and tastes like beer, then I would drink it!

i had a little chunks of white film on a xmas stout i bottled today. didn't sweat it, tasted great. if it smells good and tastes good, it's good.

i tasted it, seemed a little sour....should i let it sit for a while?

Sour taste is a pretty strong sign of a lactobacillus infection. I'd wait, bottle this, put it somewhere for a year, and then start to try it. Sometimes an "infected" beer can turn into an unintentional, awesome sour beer, given enough time.

how long shold i wait to bottle it?

do i need to worry about bottle bombs? do i use the same amount of sugar i would normally use for priming without infection?

the fg was 1.018 before the infection occured when i added the spice, should i keep checking the fg?

also what should i do about my fermentor and anything else that comes incontact with the infected beer when i bottle it. is starsan good enough to use afterwards, or do i need something stronger like bleach?

the first picture i posted was about a week after adding the spice, this one is 2 weeks and its changed alot.....i haven't tasted the beer now.

i was thinking of racking to a secondary and forgetting about the beer for a long time, i don't feel like bottling it, frankly i keg and don't bother with bottles. if i rack to secondary, wait along time, and keg this, will my equipment be containminated, or will a soak in starsan be all i need?

I have never had an infection, but that being said, "No star san will not be enough." Star san is not a cleaner its a sanitizer. You need to clean it. I would use bleach, but I think and someone can correct me if i'm wrong you can use pbw or oxiclean too.

my cleaning/sanatizing meathod is soak in hot oxiclean water, overnight, then starsan overnight, i know starsan only takes minutes but the oxiclean leaves a residue the starsan gets rid of.

will that be good enough, anyone that knows? this is my first infection so im not sure.

You should post that last photo on the pellicle thread. That looks wild!