Are these bottles infected?

[BigOil76]

Hi folks,
I bottled these 2 weeks ago and have left them alone. Now, I'm seeing strange, fiber-like things floating in and around the tops of the bottles. These are in every bottle. Before bottling, the batch had no signs of infection. Not sure if these "thing's" are a sign of infection or dormant yeast strains? Anybody see this before? Any thoughts on if the batch is ruined? Or do I just need to throw these in the refrigerator?

 

[homebrewer_99]

I looks like it to me. Did you wash and sanitize them before filling?

 

[flars]

That may just be yeast and some other sediment racked to the bottling bucket being stirred up by CO2 being produced. See what happens over the next couple of weeks.

 

[S-Met]

Pop one, taste/smell. What do you get?

 

[JLeuck64]

The more I reused bottles early on for home brewing the more I saw the same sort of debris in my bottled beer. What worked for me to remove that "gunk" was this: After finishing a beer I rinse the bottle really well. Then I pour in just a small amount of premixed water/oxy clean into each bottle. I let that bottle, and all the rest that collect, sit on the counter top until I have a dozen. Then I scrub them out with a bottle brush before I run them through a dishwasher. I modified my bottle brush by cutting off that little ring on the end so I can chuck the brush up in a cordless drill. Takes just a couple of seconds to scrub out a bottle before I put it in the dishwasher. Bottles that are squeaky clean and sanitized will eliminate that gunk you are seeing!

 

[Calder]

No clue. Taste it, if it tastes fine, drink fairly quickly. Nothing that can hurt you can live in beer.

Just make sure you clean the bottles well. I rinse well immediately after drinking, and then sanitize right before bottling. Have had no issues.