Sorry to add another Infection topic.

[Julohan]

Well I am looking at my fermenter. It has been in there for about 2 weeks. It meaning a dead guy ale clone, all-grain. It doesn't look like co2 bubbles. The white spots look like ice. I smelled it, It kinda smelled skunked. I had it covered the whole time. I will have someone else smell it.

It could had been from anywhere. It was my first all-grain batch. My first time using star san. My first time using all the equipment. My first time using the heat exchanger. First time using the silicone tubing. I ran sanitizer through everything. I bought a big bottle of star san. It has a pre measured filler on it, to ad to 5 gallons of water. It tried to be as careful as possible after the boil.

Anyway, here are the pictures. They are hard to see.

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[Julohan]

I don't remember if I sanitized the pump. Maybe I sanitized the exchanger with the pump or the auto siphon. Though the wort passing through the heat exchanger had to be near boiling. But, that doesn't explain the skunked smell.

 

[ThreeTaps]

I had similar looking white/silvery clusters of spots (only a few) in my Blonde Ale, which turned out great. They must have been C02 or something. After 3 weeks they were gone (noticed them at 2 weeks) and when I transferred to the bottling bucket everything looked and smelled great.

I never had a skunked smell though, so it could be completely different.

 

[Julohan]

Well I guess it is just me who smells it. I had two people who smelled it, and they did not smell the skunked smell.

 

[Vuarra]

I've smelled paranoia... in my beer... everyone else smelled hops and malt.

 

[Julohan]

Yeah, that probably is what it is.

 

[Picobrew]

Looks like tasty beer to me. That is just yeast, or break material, or that stuff combined with a bit of CO2. No big deal. It will either drop it, or it won't. Sometimes even when I rack after 3-4 weeks in primary, there is still weird stuff floating on top. It's all good.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

I've smelled paranoia... in my beer... everyone else smelled hops and malt.

+1 bottle it and after a few weeks sample it, I'm sure its fine.

Interesting pics though, I would rack under the formation being sure to not allow it into the bottling bucket or keg (depending on what you do) just to be safe.

 

[Marius]

I never look inside my fermenter.

That's why:

I never had an infection.
I never had paranoia.

(Now I really want to run to my Vanilla Stout and take a look )

 

[Julohan]

I think I may give a couple more weeks to see how it looks before I rack it. I wanted to try yeast washing for the first time.

 

[kanielb1]

Dude....your beer stinks...lol!!