Interesting. I ended up reading this because I have a batch in the secondary that got me searching mold and infections. Read a thread on sharing your infection, anyway, I love you guys since after looking at multiple photos, I think the stuff floating in mine is normal. I hope. I got gutsy and tasted, tastes pretty good. So I wont dump as originally almost happened.
This thread brought back memories, and something I had not considered way back when. We are cheeseheads. Other half & I visited my little brother in Phoenix, and he took us on a road trip to see the Grand Canyon. On the way, we saw a micro brew in the middle of nowhere, turned around and stopped in because, well, we are from Wisconsin and it said beer.
We sampled many different brews. Not even 50 miles down the road..not the squirts (thankfully), but gas! Bad. Like massive rip every 5 minutes or less. All of us. The OMG kind. I could tell when the guys.. well.. but being a lady I was silent. But somehow they could still tell. It was hot, AC on in the car, but I think we darn near wore out his window rolling down button on that trip. We laughed a lot, because what else can you do.
We all thought it was because we had just enjoyed unpasteurized beer, first thing anyone that has tried milk right out of the bulk tank thinks, but now am wondering if it may have been either an infected - on purpose or not, or chock full of probiotics we were not used to.