White Spots on my Beer

[DBbrew]

Hello all, I started my first brew a week and a half ago, there was vigorous fermentation for about four days, then it slowed down, and now it's stopp Ed completely and there's little white spots on the surface. I've been religious about keeping everything cleaned and sanitized, could this be mold though? I really don't want to have to dump my first batch.

 

[ACbrewer]

Most likely what are called 'yeast rafts'... basically some of the yeast clumps together and gets some co2 and bubbles up to the surface. Usuaully showing up as little white dots. You picture isn't totally clear, but that is what it looks like to me.

If it were mold, you just siphon the beer out from under it and drink the beer. I however doubt at this point it is mold. I'm betting still on yeast rafts.

 

[GASoline71]

I had those in one of the first batches I ever brewed. I gently swirled the carboy and waddaya know... they were tiny bubbles all bunched up together.

Gary

 

[PanzerBanana]

I've ended up with little bits of bubbles in secondary that at a glance and even a glare look look like mold. Sometimes you gotta look really close before you can see the individual bubbles. I'm used to it but still gets me every time.

 

[unionrdr]

That's not beer krausen,that's a close up of Jupiter! Tryin to fool us,huh?! But yeah,maybe specks of yeast creating nucleation points for the co2 bubbles.

 

[DBbrew]

awesome, thanks for all the input, I'm definitely happy to hear that I won't be needing to dump my beer. Sorry for the low-res photo too, I took it through my carboy with my iphone in bad light lol

 

[milldoggy]

Looks like a horrible deadly infection. You best bottle it up and send it to me for safe disposal.

 

[mikeysab]

Your beer has herpes. Those red rings are definitely an std. Maybe genital warts.

 

[DWavs]

Looks like the beginning of yeast rafts to me.

 

[DBbrew]

Looks like a horrible deadly infection. You best bottle it up and send it to me for safe disposal.

haha I think I'll take my chances

I'm hoping to bottle it this weekend though, but my bottling supplies that I ordered almost two months ago still haven't shown up...sometimes it sucks living in alaska