First infection?

[ShakerD]

Is this my first infection?

Brown ale brewed sept 11. I usually keg it after 30 days.

It looks like small clumps of little bubbles. There is a creamy haze around the outer edge.

I recently bumped the temp to 70f. Yeast is wyeast 1272.

Cheers

 

[MalFet]

Those pictures are impossible to see, but it just looks like krausen and yeast rafts from here.

 

[Runyanka]

Those pictures are impossible to see, but it just looks like krausen and yeast rafts from here.

+1
Turn on a light for the love of god.

 

[MrManifesto]

infections are pretty rare. those look like yeast islands from what i can see.

 

[Brew_4iT]

Those look like yeast rafts, if you get a film over the entire surface like a glaze looking skin.. than you got an infection hard to tell by pics, but that would give it a sour taste.

 

[ShakerD]

Yeah sorry about the bad pics. The glass is green and it's really hard to take picks through it.

I am mostly worried about the creamy haze around the outer edge. It looks to be 1.5 inches and I think it's growing. Of course you can't see that in the pictures.

I am going to cold crash and keg.

Cheers

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

If its an infection then you would taste it for sure. If it taste fine then it is not an infection.

 

[ShakerD]

If its an infection then you would taste it for sure. If it taste fine then it is not an infection.

Not according to this post. which is what I think I have.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/post-your-infection-71400/#post2477133

 

[GodsStepBrother]

If the rest of the bubbles look like the box that the arrow is pointing to then you are fine. It is hard to make out the rest.

 

[ShakerD]

MORE BAD PICTURES!!!

Sorry guys I had both garage doors open, all the lights on and a flashlight in hand.

It's waxy/creamy white and it's in chunks. It grew 1/2 inch last night and is about 2 inches today. Is it Lacto?

Cheers

 

[mlg5039]

What's it taste like?

 

[ShakerD]

I am pretty sure it was the start of Lactobacillus. It was still small so I kegged it. Not that you really have to worry because Lactobacillus is actually good for you but I didn't want to wreck the taste of the beer. I tried not to be cheap and only pulled out a keg and a half.

It actually tastes excellent.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

I never had this happen to any of my brews. Is that caused by dirty kegs/equipment? Maybe the sanitizer didn't kill all of the bad bactieria?

 

[ShakerD]

I never had this happen to any of my brews. Is that caused by dirty kegs/equipment? Maybe the sanitizer didn't kill all of the bad bactieria?

Yeah I know it's weird. This is my 36th all grain batch and the first time something like this happened.

The ironic part is I just bought a new paddle and auto syphon for this batch.

The only other thing that I did different was systematically raise the temp in my fermentation chamber to 72 as suggested by John Palmer in one of the last brew strong editions I listened to. I don't think this was the cause but I think the warmer final temp gave the ideal opportunity for the lacto to grow.

 

[ShakerD]

Btw this beer turned out perfect. Either I caught it in time or nothing was wrong.