Infection!

So, I've had my first beer infection....

My most recent brew, has continued to develop a filmy layer over the top of the beer in the bottles, much like was present in the fermentor prior to bottling. The taste isn't horrible, just kind of off, a strange bitterness to it. Anyhow, the game plan is going to be to just drink this beer up as quick as possible before the taste is more affected by the infection.

As far as my sanitation, a couple of things I have thought about:

1 - Be more diligent in monitoring my Star-San concentration and also of reusing the solution after too long or after it has been tainted with wort/etc...

2 - Take apart and clean my drum taps and spigots after each brew, or after the last of a repitched series of brews. I got lazy and just cleaned the last time without removing the drum tap on my fermentor.

3 - Continue to focus carefully on sanitation of everything during brew day.

4 - Will be making starters every time with liquid yeast to reduce lag times and potential for the wrong organism taking hold in the wort.

Anyhow, I have learned a valuable lesson, that laziness in any phase of sanitation is asking for trouble. Hopefully this will be the last of any issues since I really scrubbed down everything after my last brew was finished.