about to bottle - new yeast rafts

[rhythm]

Getting ready to bottle my first brew, and I noticed yesterday that after about two weeks of my beer looking unchanged (nothing on top but a few brown-colored floaties) it suddenly now has a lot of lighter colored stuff on top. It doesn't look like infection, just new yeast rafts, but since they are new after 2 weeks of not being there I was curious if there's any reason to now wait a bit longer to bottle, in case this means that stuff is starting to float around in the beer right now. I guess I could also cold crash it. I was all set to bottle, but the recent change in look got me curious so I thought I'd throw it out there. The beer is in primary, btw.

Thanks,
Greg

 

[Onetime]

This actually happened to my last brew ( NB Caribou Slobber). It was in the Primary for 3 weeks and 5 days and looked normal. I checked on it the next day and i got increased airlock activity and white/cream stuff forming on the sides of the carboy and on top of the beer. I posted my finding and people on the forum said it was OK.
1st: did u do a OG reading and if you did i would do a final gravity reading to see where your beer is at. Then do another reading the next day to see if the reading changed.

My OG was 1.046 and my FG was 1.006. (

It smelled good and tasted great. I choose to bottle. ( got impatient and should of done another FG reading).

If it smells good and tastes good u are probably ok.

I only have two brews under my belt so take my advice as you will.

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[rhythm]

Thanks Onetime. Yeah, I was pretty certain that the beer was fine. It still looks normal and all, it's just that after a long quiet period there was a change again and I wasn't expecting it. I was going to be lazy and just bottle this weekend without doing gravity readings, so if this meant that there was perhaps some more late activity, I wasn't going to bottle yet.

I guess I can just do what I'm supposed to do anyway: take some gravity readings and bottle if there's no change. Who would've thought!??!

Greg