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Darel Matthews
New Member
Username: Darel
Post Number: 20
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 05:23 pm: | 
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Is this mold on my wit? I think the kicker for me is the 1/2" ring around the edge of the carboy that has nothing there - where the sanitizer would have been on the glass.
Can I rack beer out from underneath the mold and try to save it? Or maybe it's not mold at all? |
Dan Listermann
Senior Member
Username: Listermann
Post Number: 2585
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 05:54 pm: |
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It appears to me to be fuzzy. It is "probably" not Brett, but who really knows?
Dan
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Darel Matthews
New Member
Username: Darel
Post Number: 21
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 06:46 pm: |
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Would it have a peculiar odor or anything? It smells OK to me. Or would you not get the barnyard aromas until later on? |
Dan Listermann
Senior Member
Username: Listermann
Post Number: 2586
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 08:14 pm: |
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Years ago, I had a brown fuzzy mold. The beer turned out OK. Your mold appears to be white fuzzy, so I really can't say much about it except that I doubt that it is Brett.
Dan
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Ric Heinz
Intermediate Member
Username: Rheinz
Post Number: 342
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 02:07 am: |
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OH CRAP!!!! Here we go again!!!!
Ric
Flatfender Brewing, NW Houston
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Dan Listermann
Senior Member
Username: Listermann
Post Number: 2588
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 03:37 pm: |
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Ric, please note my choice of phrasing. I would hope that the "Got'cha Guys" would be satisfied with my opinions if expressed in a less declarative way. I have learned my lesson! Thanks "Guys."
Dan
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Jester
New Member
Username: Jester
Post Number: 1
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 07:30 pm: |
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I had a similar look to my first brew, but a few days later the white stuff turned into larger bubbles... so I was told that it was just small bubbles... and the brew turned out GREAT...!!! So jsut wait and see... |
Stephen Manchester
Member
Username: Smanches
Post Number: 170
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 01:45 pm: |
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It's hard to see for sure, but it looks like starch clumps to me. I get this a lot on many brews, or sometimes a white film across the entire surface. Mold would completely float on the surface. Some of these lumps look partially submerged like icebergs, which would not be mold.
Can mold grow in alcohol? I have yet to see any. |
Belly Buster Bob
Senior Member
Username: Canman
Post Number: 2515
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 02:17 pm: |
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I've had mold before...actually blue stuff. I set berr to ferment and left town for a 2 months. There was blow off and the mold started in the air lock...or rather on it. You could see how it travelled down the crusty blowoff finally reaching the beer surface. I racked from under and after a long cold condition the beer was awesome
Bellybuster Bob
www.bellybuster.netfirms.com
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Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 5172
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 02:58 pm: |
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Some molds are somewhat alcohol tolerant and can survive in beer. Many molds are benign in terms of their effect on beer flavor.
Of course this assumes we are in fact discussing mold. There is also the rather widely held opinion that the phenomenon depicted above is yeast colonies. |
Belly Buster Bob
Senior Member
Username: Canman
Post Number: 2516
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:41 am: |
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That 1/2 ring of nothing is caused by the shape of the surface of the beer due to surface tension. The surface is actually slightly concave
Bellybuster Bob
www.bellybuster.netfirms.com
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Connie
Senior Member
Username: Connie
Post Number: 1568
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 - 07:29 pm: |
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deleted after reading on the web site that it fermented 21 days~
(Message edited by connie on October 15, 2010) |
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