Sediments in bottle neck

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So I've been brewing for a couple years, not that often, maybe once a month. I like to think I demonstrate good sanitation practices. I bottled a gallon batch about a week and a half ago and noticed this in the neck of all bottles(attached imaged). I've never seen this. Possibly an infection? Looking for feedback. Hopefully I am overreacting.

-Eric

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Looks the same in every bottle? That seems too big of a coincidence. First time you've brewed this beer and/or different yeast?

It may be a little undercarbed, but may be worthwhile to try one and see how it tastes. If it gushes on you, might be an infection, if it tastes sour, might be an infection. If not, might just be an anomaly.
 
what happens if you give the bottles a quick twist? Does the stuff in the neck fall out or does it stay? If it falls out, im willing to bet its yeast (id still open one and see) if it stays, id guess infection (still open and see)...
 
Do you put your sugar inside every bottle or put the whole thing in the bottling bucket?

Putting the right amount in each bottle gives you some consistence but sometimes, the sugar gets stuck on the glass. Give it a little shake and more time it will go away.
 
Ive messed around with different carbonating agents. Honey, maple syrup, conditioning tablets. I've recently used Northern Brewer fizz drops which worked well for me in the past.
 
I'll bet it's yeast. I posted a similar concern before and the beer turned out great. Turns out my wiping of the bottles created static that caused the yeast to stick to the sides.

Revvy said it best:

Guys, it's flocculated yeast that, probably due to static electricity has stuck on the inside of the sides of the bottle. It's the same thing that happens in the hundreds of panic threads about it clinging to the side of carboys, like this;

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A little info on infections seems necessary kiddies, a visible infection can ONLY form on the SURFACE of a beer!!!! Pelicules, and films and even mold, can only happen where there is oxygen present, or where the surface comes in contact with oxygen. They form SKINS..... Something inside a bottles (which is pretty much a vacumm) or below the surface of the beer in a fermenter is in an Anerobic environment, infections can't grow there.

If you see anything below the surface it's not an infection it's just a floatie and 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time, the floaty in a bottle of beer is going to be yeast and perfectly normal.

Quit jumping at everything that might look strange in fermentation, it all looks strange, and smells strange. Fermentation is ugly and stinky....when it's perfectly normal.
 
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