Questions tagged [mold]
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Mold or Floating Yeast?
There is floating debris in my mead—Is this a cause for concern?
Some context: I fermented honey water with Red Star Premier Blanc wine yeast, nearly 4 weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I transferred the mead ...
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Possible contamination or mold?
Our marshmallow porter seems to have some type or mold or sediment floating atop the beer after 17 days fermenting in a wide-mouth plastic carboy. They look like flakes. Not fuzzy or spider-web like. ...
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Light green mold on the top
I am just starting my ginger bug. On day three and it has started growing light green mold on some of the ginger pieces at the top. I have it in a 1 L jar with an airlock. This exact thing happened ...
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Dilemma whether it is MOLD on kombucha with green section
I am in the process of making my third batch of Kombucha and ingredients that I have used were
Darjeeling Black Tea
Darjeeling Green Tea
SCOBY (of course)
Note: i haven't flavored yet
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does my ginger bug have mold?
My ginger bug had been 3 days bubbling and fizzing, but now it's stopped bubbling and smells too much of fermented ginger, can somebody help me? please?
I need help urgently.
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Mold or fermentation not touching the edge of the carboy
I pressed 35L of apples and the juice was pourred into a clean carboy with a muslin cloth on top, aiming to make wild cider.
After 4 days of no action, this is the carboy at 16h in day 4:
And 4 ...
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Dark liquid floating in secondary fermentor
I started the fermentation for a pale ale two and a half weeks ago, dry hopped it five days in and then racked it four days ago. The trub has fallen to the bottom and I just noticed a dark layer of ...
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Primary Fermentation - Mold or Yeast by product?
Anyone seen this before? Very light bread mold look only on the surface of primary fermentation. All equipment StarSan’d before use. I’ve been home brewing for many years and never had this happen so, ...
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Mold on Cider is it unsafe after boil
Mold on Cider is it unsafe? It tasted good strained the mold (blueish) and boiled the cider for 20 min. I plan to put the yeast and fruit in tommorrow. Will the boil and yeast take out the mold ...
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Cotton looking mold on my sour
This is the second time I'm doing a no-boil, fast lacto sour. I had nearly 3 lbs of grain (with about 9% acid malt) for a 1 gallon batch. I did BIAB for 1 hour and put right into a fermenter. I let it ...
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Mold growing on blow-off tube water -- batch ruined?
I'm brewing my first batch with a brooklyn brew show all-gain kit. I skipped the airlock and left the blow-off tube in place in a pot of bleachy water. It's been there for the past two weeks.
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Best way to clean moldy fermentation bucket
I've just had a major house move. During the move, I noticed my fermentation bucket had developed mold. Quite large mounds (to me anyway) of perhaps 0.25in diameter, in the corner of the base. Clearly ...
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Suspected mold in elderflower country champagne
I have recently bottled a sparkling elderflower drink (sometimes referred to as Country Champagne or something similar). Together with the elderflowers, it contains water, sugar, lemons and a little ...
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green sludge floating
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I am brewing a double IPA. The beer is in the secondary and has been there for 10 days. I recorded 7.8% alc when I ...
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Mold in S-Shaped Airlock
I'm new to homebrewing, and I've recently encountered a problem with an s-shaped airlock. I clean it out with water after use, but it takes forever to dry on its own. This time, it's started growing ...
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