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 into another carboy for secondary fermentation, added in toasted oak chips, and a Campden tablet. 1 week ago, I removed the oak chips, and transferred the mead into a new carboy. The mead still has not cleared up, and I just noticed some floating …

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 Now, the issue is for my third batch I am a little worried about the health of my SCOBY as when today (after exactly 7 days ) when I opened the jar to check on it, i suspected small green area near the circumferences of my SCOBY. …

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. Beer tastes and smells similar to usual, Preconditioning, but we’ve never had floaters like this before. Should we toss it or is it fine to bottle?

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 the last time I tried to start a ginger bug just a couple weeks ago. Any ideas for how to keep the ginger pieces below the water?

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.

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 hours later, by 20h in day 4: Is my juice infected and if so, can I still save it? Why are the white particles only localized in the middle and not going towards the edges? Is it possible …

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 liquid floating on the top. I've never seen this before. Does anyone have an idea of what it is?

I've got a basic beer serving fridge out in the garage, just a few taps on the front and some bottles on the door. I'm developing a problem with what looks kinda like mold, I notice it mostly on the black rubberish top area but some on the stainless as well. It looks like it was peppered with a bunch of little tiny snowballs, white round and spread pretty evenly with some areas more concentrated then others. The mold substance …

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, no clue if this batch is ruined. Safe to drink? Also, brewed this 3 weeks ago.

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 bacteria?

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 cool down to about 100 °F and pitched 2 pills of Lactobacillus plantarum from Swanson Probiotics. It sits in a room without A/C, so the heat remains fairly high especially now with a heat wave in …

I brewed a batch of Pale (first solo brew) and after pitching yeast (6 hours), noticed yellow clusters of what I think was mold. I thought I had an infection, so I siphoned off, and collected supernatant in clean carboy (trying hard not to interrupt the surface where most of the visible yellow clusters were). Fermentation ramped up and was vigorous all day yesterday (brewed on Sunday) but a day later, today, I noticed visibly that it slowed. Now, I …

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 wine vinegar, and it relies on naturally occurring yeasts to ferment a bit of the sugar and produce the carbonation in the bottle. However, the bottles have white stuff at the top and bottom of the liquid (which is perfectly clear other than this), and a little in suspension, which I …

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. Today, I go look at it to start bottling and I see mold growing on the water that the blow-off tube was plugged into! I guess the bleach evaporated.. Is the batch ruined? And to avoid this in the future, I suppose I …

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 I didn't do a good job of cleaning it last time I used it. So far I've only rinsed with high pressure water - basically to remove the odour for the move. How should I best kill and clean this stuff ready for brewing? Is …

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3nIWsUoDjs2RVlsZ3FnaWdYRjQ/edit?usp=docslist_api 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 transferred it. I just noticed this green sludge in the top forming. I am dry hoping with an ounce of pellets in cheese cloth. There doesn't seem to be hair growing in the sludge. It's this hopsludge or mold? Thanks. The picture I'm including in the link makes it look brown but it looks …

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 mold inside after washing it out. Is there some way to dry out the airlock to prevent this sort of mold growth? I imagine if I cleaned it out with vodka or something similar, it would prevent such growth, but I'd prefer to clean …

We are making a home made batch of huckleberry wine for halloween. We filled a Cleaned milk jug 3 quarters of the way with water, then we drained the juice, put it in the milk jug, and added a small package of yeast, and 1 cup of sugar. The Milk jug is 3 quarters of the way full still. It's been sitting for almost 4 weeks. We now have this weird film over the top layer of liquid. I don't …

I have three ciders going, two "spiced" ciders and one regular/standard whatever the straight apple squeezed cider ("Ryan's" brand if anyone is familiar) is called. This is my first attempt at cider, didn't do much research just got a great deal on cider. QUESTION: Is my cider done for? can I rack it off the mold? is it safe to drink? what can I do? HERE'S THE SIMPLE STORY: The cider was on sale because it was close to "sell …