Mold In Secondary?

[Kidagora]

Racked to secondary yesterday. It's been about 18 hours and I noticed what appears to be white patches. Kinda looks like fine bubbles aggregating together up close but can't tell about others. Primary looked and tasted good. I soaked the secondary with pbw for a day, then rinsed with starsan for 30 and let sit for 6 hours before transferring. What are the chances this is mold?

 

[gcdowd]

Hard to tell. Are they fuzzy? Kinda just looks like pockets of CO2 bubbles to me.

 

[HopHeadGrady]

You're perfectly fine

 

[FermentNEthinG]

Looks like yeast rafts and co2 bubbles to me. I get those some times in my tripels. You just transferred to your secondary so your seeing fermentation still taking place.

 

[Kidagora]

There hasn't really been any growth since. They appear to be islands of white froth. No discoloration other than white. This was a 1.071 blonde ale that dropped to 1.011 for secondary. I was concerned for a moment my first brew was a bust! I'm guessing there would be exponential growth if it was mold.

 

[nick0122]

Totally fine! I had the exact same thing in my nut brown two weeks ago. Just yeast rafts and co2. Beer turned out great!

 

[kdigman]

I get that as well, I think it is extra starsan floating around.


Shouldn't be an issue.

 

[bcinlas4]

Still on my first batch and same thing happened. Sampled it and there are no off flavors or smell. Will bottle tonight.

 

[Revvy]

You're fine, the surface of our beer is rarely free of floaties. Mostly yeast rafts.

 

[unionrdr]

Just co2 bubbles floating around. But I do see some misty web lines trying to form. Looks like it anyway,which would be the start of a lacto infection. If it's ready to bottle,do it now.

 

[homebrewdad]

Yeast rafts. Perfectly normal.