My 3rd ever brew :)

[Robrew]

NOT to me! Looks like the start of a normal Krausen

Infections tend to produce slimy or string like (rope infections or wooly jumper type heads (sherry Flor) or thin films with dangly bits ( Vinegar mother ).

Leave well alone for a few days. Smell what is comming out of the airlock. You WILL know when its an infection ( acidic/vomit/weird smells )

If still OK wait and then rack off into secondary and then you can check the gravity and taste it!!

IMHO openning a fermenter to smell or syphon off 100 ml for a SG test will NOT cause an infection ( based on 40 years of brewing and only 1 infected batch )

The air we breath is NOT repeat NOT full of beer invading nasties! It is more likely that a fly or other small winged insect will contaminate your beer. That is why the little critters that appear in summer in the kitcken around the fruit bowl are called "Vinegar Flies"

This whole myth about infection was probably started by the sanitiser companies.

After all in Belgium Lambics are brewed with almost no hygene and yet they don't get INFECTED

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ye, I saw a forum with a lot of pictures of infections and the stringy parts were very dominant, the smell from the fermenter is banana flavour but not in an overpowering way more subtle, but I do not think that aroma is related to infections :-?

[Padraic]

Banana:

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=off_flavours#isoamyl_acetate

[Robrew]

Banana:

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=off_flavours#isoamyl_acetate

that quotation makes a lot of sense in relation to my beer as there was a larger amount of fermentables put into the wort than I usually would, and also the yeast was pitched at 22c which is higher than I usually would pitch, glad I know know what the aroma is  thanks

[Partridge9]

It I were you - stop navel gazing !

Leave it a day or two, if its infected - dont worry - you'll know - it will get hairy etc


One of the biggest problem we have as home-brewers is lack of patience - god knows I'm the worst !!!

[Ciderhead]

Looks ok, Will is right take a sample for gravity and taste it!
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