Can Anyone Tell Me What This Is?

[tomridder]

This is my fisrt batch of pale ale. There is something floating around in my carboy. I showed this picture to the guy at the home brew shop and he does not know what it is. He said it may be the yeast. It smells fine and tasted fine when I transfered ti to the carboy. It had this stuff in the fermentation pale too. I have been very careful with sanitizing. My temps were a little warm but I have been able to keep it down to 65F - 70F.

Should I try to filter it when I transfer back to the pale for adding the priming sugar?

 

[mredge73]

I have had my WL001 yeast clump up like that, what yeast are you using?

 

[ShakerD]

Looks like yeast to me

 

[tomridder]

I used a Wyeast Pack

 

[scottland]

I used a Wyeast Pack

Do you remember which strain on WYeast you used? Was it 1056 - American Ale?

Basically, there's no real need to worry, those look like clumps of yeast. They will drop out of suspension soon.

 

[Mudflap]

yea I have this same thing going on right now in a batch. I used S-05 (dry yeast) and I didn't rehydrate it this time since it was a small batch so I'm assuming its just yeast clumps. Should be fine!

 

[tomridder]

I will look at the package and let you know. Thanks for you help.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Definitely looks like yeast rafts to me. I get em on almost every brew I do. Just let it sit a while and they should drop out. If not, just be careful when racking not to suck them up. No worries.