CalmYourself
Well-Known Member
So I was busy crash cooling, getting ready to gelatin when I took the shirt off my bucket and saw mold all over the lid.
I decided rather not to put gelatin in and cleaned the lid. I did this by pouring basically pure ClO2 on the lid, leaving it for a while, wiping off with a damp cloth.
Then I poured boiling water on the lid and left it for a bit.
Then some more ClO2 and cleaned it off.
Anyway, today comes and I double check and see that there's mold on the side of the bucket (here's where i was on the ball enough to take photos)
I've sprayed the bucket with a pretty strong solution of ClO2. It was around 100ppm and normal sanitizing requires around 4ppm. I'm going to rub it off later with a cloth.
So my question: How can I prevent mold like this from happening again? Primary sits like that for around 3 weeks usually, sometimes longer.
P.S. I'm not worried that it got into the beer, but it is annoying and I dont want to chance it.
Also, it was a brand new fermenter bucket. That's the first batch it's ever had
I decided rather not to put gelatin in and cleaned the lid. I did this by pouring basically pure ClO2 on the lid, leaving it for a while, wiping off with a damp cloth.
Then I poured boiling water on the lid and left it for a bit.
Then some more ClO2 and cleaned it off.
Anyway, today comes and I double check and see that there's mold on the side of the bucket (here's where i was on the ball enough to take photos)
I've sprayed the bucket with a pretty strong solution of ClO2. It was around 100ppm and normal sanitizing requires around 4ppm. I'm going to rub it off later with a cloth.
So my question: How can I prevent mold like this from happening again? Primary sits like that for around 3 weeks usually, sometimes longer.
P.S. I'm not worried that it got into the beer, but it is annoying and I dont want to chance it.
Also, it was a brand new fermenter bucket. That's the first batch it's ever had