Ish! I see white spots in a carboy.

[Grummore]

Greetings everyone!

It's been a while since I'm a registered user, but I am mostly a reader of your fantastic forums!

Today, I went to keg a beer (new to that) that has been in carboys for at least 6 weeks. I didn't have the time to take care of it, but I happened to do this for at least 2 beers in the past and I never had any trouble with waiting such a long time to keg or bottle it.

It's a porter. The lids didn't seem to have any sort of leaking (the liquid did not evaporate enough to let oxygen enter, at least I don't think so). The carboys (I had two! of the same beer) were in my basement, away from everything and in total darkness. The temperature stayed around 19 C to 21 C. Technically, I am a cleaner/sanitizer freak.

BUT there are white spots all over the place as you can see with these pictures. It may not be really clear, but I don't think it's yeast rafts, since what I got is really white. They do look like snowflakes.

Anybody know what this could be?
What would you do?
should I do... down the drain?

Any sort of comment is welcome.

ps : sorry for my poor English, it's my second language

 

[Kevin58]

Looks like yeast rafts to me. Ease your racking cane through the surface and rack without disturbing it. As long as your beer doesn't smell or taste bad you should be fine.