infected wort?

[heebs]

This a new thing I have seen in my beer since moving to my new place. I "think" it is infected to a small degree but want some input from people better than I. I start seeing that white haze on the top when I go to keg out of secondary.

 

[Zoidberg]

My vote is infected. Lacto or Brett, what's it taste like?

When it appears could be relevant but remember, it can sometimes take 2-4 weeks for signs to appear after infection takes place.

 

[heebs]

Tastes fine. I know I have a bit of moisture in the basement and have seen this stuff before. No off flavors at all and I don't sweat it all that much since this batch of 30g will be lucky to see 2.5 months from boil.

 

[davygoat2]

I don't keg but I would bottle that,

 

[heebs]

I have been thinking that the source of my infection may be coming from my ball valves. Has anyone had any luck ridding themselves of this type of contamination? I should be able to just boil away the ugly but you never know.....

 

[heebs]

So the first transfer I have done since this pic seems to have a better smell to it, of course I may just be deluding myself. I took every one of my kettle ball valves/fittings pulled them apart, boiled them with oxy clean, and put them back together. Even if I didn't find the infection source, I can tell you that the inside of my ball valves were filthy. I will report back when I dry hop, as that is when I usually really notice the change.

 

[heebs]

So my total break down cleaned out the infection. Lesson here is that might maybe you should break down the ball valves from time to time.