Infection?

[LovesIPA]

I guess everyone has to post one of these sooner or later.

This is a Chinook IPA that I dry-hopped a week ago. I stitched a paint strainer bag together, boiled it and an extra stainless fitting for 15 mins, put the hops in the bag and sealed it back up.

I was about to keg it and I didn't care for the look of the white film on some of the bubbles. I'm wondering if people think it's infected.

 

[Hex23]

Doesn't look out of the ordinary to me. How does it smell? How long ago did you pitch yeast?

 

[Gear101]

yeast rafts and health bubbles. GTG

 

[unionrdr]

Look at the small bubble near the center of the pic. It's white & slimy looking. A couple others look the same when you branch out your line of sight. That's a lacto infection starting. also,the white film has the characteristic grainy look to it from what I've experienced. Something likely didn't get cleaned well before sanitizing.

 

[gcdowd]

Looks fine to me

 

[LovesIPA]

Look at the small bubble near the center of the pic. It's white & slimy looking. A couple others look the same when you branch out your line of sight. That's a lacto infection starting. also,the white film has the characteristic grainy look to it from what I've experienced. Something likely didn't get cleaned well before sanitizing.

Good eye.

I thought it was a lacto infection as well when I looked at it last night. I kegged it anyway on the advice here. When I take a FG sample, I usually collect some of the trub in a measuring cup and let it settle in the fridge overnight. I just tasted it this morning and it didn't taste right at all.

This is the second batch that got ruined because of infection when dry-hopping. I have to find a different way to do this.

And I was hoping this was going to be my first good batch of beer.

 

[unionrdr]

Check everything that touches the beer post boil. gotta be something simple. Remove any spigots & clean/sanitize seperately. Re-install wet with sanitizer.
Make sure all parts are properly cleaned before sanitizing,else you're just sanitizing dirt that can come back later to cause problems.

 

[LovesIPA]

The fermenter was thoroughly cleaned and sanitized on brew day. I rack right onto the foam. The beer looked fine when I opened the bucket to dry-hop it. I boiled the bag, sanitized my hands, and did everything very carefully. I don't know what I could have done differently or better.

Very annoying, especially with all the other problems I've been having lately.