Ah, I swore I'd never do this, but I'm gonna have to ask: do I have an infection?
I'm not concerned so much with the little floaties, which I assume are normal yeast rafts, but there's a filmy spiderweb-like top covering the beer which you can kind of see in this picture. When you rock the bucket from side to side, you can see the beer moving underneath it and that's what has me concerned. Is this normal yeast behavior? As you can see, I have a bucket and not a carboy, so I'm still kind of feeling my way through things. I don't ever remember seeing this before, but then, this is only my second batch and I easily could've missed it the first time.
More info: it's a pretty basic kit Irish Red ale, checked the SG over the weekend and it was 1.012, which should be about it's FG. It's been in primary for almost three weeks, so I assume it's done fermenting. When I checked the gravity I did some sampling and it didn't taste sour at all, so if there is something wrong, I'm thinking I may have caught it early and I'm gonna bottle the sucker right quick and hope I can leave the crap on the top. Otherwise, I had planned to let it sit maybe another week.
So am I being overly noobish here? Or should I kick into action?
I'm not concerned so much with the little floaties, which I assume are normal yeast rafts, but there's a filmy spiderweb-like top covering the beer which you can kind of see in this picture. When you rock the bucket from side to side, you can see the beer moving underneath it and that's what has me concerned. Is this normal yeast behavior? As you can see, I have a bucket and not a carboy, so I'm still kind of feeling my way through things. I don't ever remember seeing this before, but then, this is only my second batch and I easily could've missed it the first time.
More info: it's a pretty basic kit Irish Red ale, checked the SG over the weekend and it was 1.012, which should be about it's FG. It's been in primary for almost three weeks, so I assume it's done fermenting. When I checked the gravity I did some sampling and it didn't taste sour at all, so if there is something wrong, I'm thinking I may have caught it early and I'm gonna bottle the sucker right quick and hope I can leave the crap on the top. Otherwise, I had planned to let it sit maybe another week.
So am I being overly noobish here? Or should I kick into action?