That's just CO2... right?

[uncleozzy]

This is my amber ale, 11 days old. I took a hydro sample two days ago and gave it a gentle swirl to try to get some of the yeast colonies on top to drop out. I took another sample today, and saw this (the clear spot on the right is where I drew today's sample):



The beer tastes fine: the hops have faded a lot since the other day, and left it with a lot of caramel and toasty malt. As far as I can tell, no sourness. Some hot alcohol.

So... ease my mind. The white stuff between the yeast colonies... gotta just be CO2 coming up from the swirling, right?

 

[ChshreCat]

Looks like yeast colonies surrounded by hop oils to me.

 

[boo boo]

Looks like Co2 alright. Don't look like it is finished yet though.
I'd leave it another week.

 

[uncleozzy]

Rock on... thanks. Just wanted to get some more sets of eyes on it. I haven't seen bubbles like that before, but it didn't really look like anything nasty, either. It's also a little surprising that Notty hasn't dropped out completely, but no big deal. I was going to rack to secondary to free up the primary, but I'll give it a few more days.