Infection or yeast floaties?

[rhys333]

I'm about to bottle my hefe and noticed a few floaters on top where the last of the krausen used to be. Do you guys think ita okay or an infection? Btw, the yeast is wy3068.

 

[rhys333]

...it does look worse in the pic than real life by the way. The floaters are actually tiny. Not greasy or skinned over either.

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[BMWillis]

Looks like clumps of yeast rafts to me, but I'm only a few brews into this obsession myself!

I'm sure a more veteran brewer will be along shortly to give you a better opinion.


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[podz]

Did you dry hop? That might be hop particles grouping up on the surface.

A lot of people worry about infections, I read. I have pretty much come to realise that you need to be very, very unlucky to get one. I mean, my hygiene isn't spectacular (not careless, but also not fanatic). I've made somewhere around 60 5-gal batches of this and that and never had an infection yet. Or maybe we just don't have wild bacteria here in Finland - yeah, right ;-)

 

[rhys333]

Thanks for the feedback both. I was a bit concerned as this was my first time top-cropping yeast from the primary. Farting around in the fermenter scooping up yeast while its busy doing its thing, I wasn't sure. You're right by the way podz... obsessing too much about something that rarely happens.

I bottled it and all seemed fine. I didn't dry hop, but it clung to the primary after racking the beer out and it seemed normal. Nothing funky anyway.