I recently made a pale ale, which looked and smelled wonderful while fermenting and when I bottled it. I pulled one out yesterday to try it, and noticed that after bottle conditioning, they all have these tiny specks on the sides and floating in the beer. I opened one anyway, and it smelled fine and tasted fine, so I can’t tell if it’s infected. It also seems like the spots are only sticking to one side of the bottle, which seemed weird since they were stored upright.
While I am new to brewing, I’ve brewed a few batches before and I have a good cleaning and sanitizing regimen. I don’t know if this may be an issue, but this was my first time using pbw to clean before sanitizing. Maybe I didn’t rinse thoroughly enough?
I know it looks like bubbles in the image, but they slowly sink when they detached from the side.
