I would taste and smell it, but I really doubt it's an infection.
I kind of took the first reply as sarcasm, feeding off the fears of new home brewers.
Maybe, but I didn't read it that way.
OP, it definitely looks infected judging by the chunks of white stuff floating around in there.
Bottle it up and ship it to me and I'll dispose of it properly.
(See, that's how you do it!):cross:
To clarify, the white ring is where it got sloshed when I pulled it out of the closet to take a closer look..
it's a really blurry picture, but i have to go with RDWing here. i don't see anything that looks out of the ordinary, just some rafting, that ring of bubbles looks like co2 nucleating on the rafts. if you're worried, take a gravity reading, smell and taste the sample. do the same in a few days, if something's going on, you'll have signs.
as far as not using a starter as a way to lower your risk of contamination..... that couldn't be further from good advice. you want to pitch enough healthy, viable yeast to ensure that yeast fermentation kicks off and nothing else takes hold. the rest of Nanobru's advice is solid, if you are in fact infected (which i doubt), ditch all the plastics that may have come in contact. sucks, but plastic will hold on to that $h!t.
briflo said:I dont use plastics. I use a 6 1/2 gallon glass carboy for primary and 5 gall glass carboy for secondary.
Instead of ditching the plastic, you can ship it to me
Overnight soak in oxyclean normally gets rid of any brett/pedio/lacto in the plastic. Maybe not in buckets, but definitely better bottles
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