Does this look like an infection starting?

[afio18]

I just moved to my secondary yesterday and today this is what the beer looks like.

http://www.shutterfly.com/lightbox/view.sfly?fid=b146475af0203165d33ce936de451066

 

[jescholler]

There is an error in the link. It says the page cannot be found. I'm willing to bet that it's just CO2 bubbles forming on top of the beer (look closely and you'll probably see very tiny bubbles).

It's pretty common just after transfer to secondary and I thought the same thing with my 1st batch.

 

[afio18]

Thanks. I was having trouble getting the picture to post.

 

[afio18]

I just took a look and there are white spots with tiny bubbles around them all over the place. So it looks like I'm good. I hope.

 

[Revvy]

can't see it without a shurrterfly account.

But more than likely if you moved it to secondary yesterday and are seeing something, then you are either getting a new krauzen forming. That usually happens if you moved it too soon (without taking two grav readings 3 days apart usually after about 10 days since yeast pitch) or you have a stuck fermentation and racking kicked it back into gear.

The other possibility is that you are getting yeast rafts forming. That's just yeast buoyed up from the bottom by rising co2, the top of very few beers are ever perfectly clear.

But either or, your beer is fine, and not infected, since, really it is harder to get an infection than most new brewers realize.