yea, bottling from 5 liter growlers i was using as secondary, and with older gear to avoid cross-contamination, so a bit more oxigen than normal would be likely.It looks like a small pellicle in the bottle, which sometimes happens. It usually is a sign you got more oxygen in your beer/bottles than you probably want. Unless you can flush and fill bottles with counterpressure, you're always going to deal with some oxygen while packaging. I've been brewing sour beer for more than a decade and bottle out of a bottling bucket, so I've had enough of this to know it's not anything to worry about. Sometimes it goes away, sometimes it doesn't. Unless the pellicle becomes particularly thick it usually breaks up and integrates into the beer when you pour it.
You could have tiny chunks of cherry that got into the bottle. While not ideal, also should not be an issue. I've had fruit get into bottles that I drank years down the road with no problem except discarding a little more of the bottom of the bottle.
If it looks blobby or furry, then sure, I would dump it. The chances of mold growth in a sour beer is extremely unlikely unless there was already mold in the bottle.
fg was below 1, i added enough to get 2.0 carbing
So my cherry sour is developing what looks like a pellicle or infection in the bottle, I used belgian lambic blend, but my previous batches never had this.
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