I thought I had appropriately sterilized my equipment prior to brewing but I'm starting to suspect something might be wrong. After 7 days of fermentation I'm noticing some pretty suspicious growth forming on the surface of the cider and on the top of the inside of the glass fermentation vessels. This light-brown growth looks very similar to the foam that forms when I first press the juice, but I'm concerned it might be bacteria or some other not-so-good organism.
I used campden tablets and a pectin enzyme as directed before pitching the yeast and I washed the jugs with B-Brite as directed and cleaned all of my other supplies with a bleach solution as recommended elsewhere on this site.
In other words, I thought I did a pretty solid job of keeping my stuff clean throughout the process.
How do I know if the growth I'm seeing will harm my cider or if it's just a natural yeast bi-product? I did swirl the jugs to mix the yeast so it's feasible that what I'm seeing on the is just yeast growth on the inside of the bottle, right? Should I be concerned? Is there a way to test? Is all lost? HELP!!!
Thanks!
I used campden tablets and a pectin enzyme as directed before pitching the yeast and I washed the jugs with B-Brite as directed and cleaned all of my other supplies with a bleach solution as recommended elsewhere on this site.
In other words, I thought I did a pretty solid job of keeping my stuff clean throughout the process.
How do I know if the growth I'm seeing will harm my cider or if it's just a natural yeast bi-product? I did swirl the jugs to mix the yeast so it's feasible that what I'm seeing on the is just yeast growth on the inside of the bottle, right? Should I be concerned? Is there a way to test? Is all lost? HELP!!!
Thanks!