Help Please - White Stuff In Secondary

[bc23]

I brewed the Northern Brewer three hearted ale (IPA) in October. Three weeks in primary and it's been hanging out in the secondary since then.

Maybe after three weeks in the secondary I noticed a white/yellow film beginning to develop at the top. It's still there, and I'm hesitant to keg it. I really don't want to dump it but I'd like to know if anyone's seen anything like this before. Pic links below:

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Martin2D]

Oh no...that's one of the worst infections I've ever seen....


Looks fine man, just yeast/proteins IMO.

 

[Nurmey]

Nothing to worry about. More times that not when you transfer to secondary, you get yeast floaties that pop to the surface. They just kind of float around doing nothing. Just rack and proceed as normal.

 

[FoeKillerCreek]

Looks normal to me.

 

[Nugent]

Yeast rafts. When I use Wyeast 1275, I get them all the time.

 

[Revvy]

It looks like yeast rafts AND possibly that shortly after racking you got a small krausen hence the dry yeast band in the third picture.

 

[BarleyWater]

Looks fine other than you racked too early. And your carboy looks dirty.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

RDWHAHB It looks fine as others have pointed out.


As for racking too early, some feel that racking before fermentation is done is good as it allows co2 to purge the oxygen out of the secondary.

 

[bc23]

Thanks everyone for the help - truly appreciate it.

Kegging will commence tomorrow morning with copius dry hopping!

 

[homebeerbrewer]

I say it's bad, send it to me for proper disposal.

 

[Rick500]

I brewed that kit (extract) a while back. I still have a case of it in bottles. Every bottle has a little white ring on top, which turns to little white floaties in the glass. Never figured out exactly what happened, but I'm leaning towards it being krausen rings in the bottle.

(Pretty sure I used 1056, though, not 1275.)