Possible Infection? (you love these threads, right?)

[Antifreze]

http://i.imgur.com/6JxnJ.jpg

Worried this breakfast stout might be infected. It's almost a month in the primary. Friend thinks it may be a brett infection. Any thoughts?

 

[nukinfuts29]

that is NASTY looking lol.

 

[bierhaus15]

Sorta hard to say definitively, but it looks fine to me. RDWHAHB.

I would bet that what is on top is just the remnants from the krausen. Usually infected beers will develop a powdery-white pellicle that covers the whole surface of the beer. When moved, they break up into separate, angular pieces with lots of white, floaty bits.

 

[Antifreze]

Sorta hard to say definitively, but it looks fine to me. RDWHAHB.

I would bet that what is on top is just the remnants from the krausen. Usually infected beers will develop a powdery-white pellicle that covers the whole surface of the beer. When moved, they break up into separate, angular pieces with lots of white, floaty bits.

yeah, still smells fine, and still planning to rack it, just want to set expectations...

 

[nukinfuts29]

Sorta hard to say definitively, but it looks fine to me. RDWHAHB.

I would bet that what is on top is just the remnants from the krausen. Usually infected beers will develop a powdery-white pellicle that covers the whole surface of the beer. When moved, they break up into separate, angular pieces with lots of white, floaty bits.

You could be right, but I have neeeever had a krausen look nasty like that. And he said it has been at least a month. I mean that looks horrible lol. I'm all for racking out from under it, but my god does it look disgusting.

 

[Shavingfoams]

Not too disgusting, it's all about frame of mind. I think it kinda looks like the underside of a Crunch bar

 

[day_trippr]

I have a carboy with a batch of chocolate stout a week into primary that I'm pretty sure looks like that pic - only dark brown. It always looks like a moon scape but I've never had an infected batch...

Cheers!

 

[corwin3083]

All of my hefes with WLP300 look like that.

 

[bottlebomber]

There's nothing wrong with that krausen, and there's nothing wrong with that beer. If it was a pale ale I'd be suspicious, but its a stout. They can look like that.

 

[Seven]

Looks like nasty, ugly, beautiful and perfectly normal fermentation to me!

 

[Antifreze]

That is all awesome to hear