Evan_L
Well-Known Member
Bottled my first competition beer (and my second original recipe) tonight, a lemongrass ginger saison. Completely amazed at the 3711 for dropping from 1.058 to 1.002! Tastes great so far, can't wait for it to carb up.
I need to submit 3 bottles so the first 6 were impeccably cleaned and sanitized. I usually keep the well rinsed bottles in the garage and just sanitize before filling. Due to my schedule this week I needed to get this done tonight, and after re-cleaning the first 32 bottles, I slacked and just sanitized the last 16 to save time....what a stupid move. As I shook out the last un-re-cleaned bottles from the san bucket I noticed some mold floating.
I've read a hundred "OMG is it ruined" threads but upon seeing the mold, I promptly forgot all the advice I have previously read! So....is it ruined lol. Seriously, I marked the bottles (clean+san vs. just san) so it's no biggie if I lost a few, but should I even try drinking them?
Also, I have yet to see this but I usually leave just the blow off in a bucket with 12" of sanitizer for the duration of fermentation with no issues. This time however I noticed some nasties (mold?) floating in the blowoff bucket. They appeared sometime in the last week. It has been quite warm, about 80* in the house, pretty good environment for growing that crap. I'm sure it didn't grow legs and crawl up the blow off to infect the batch. Am considering tossing the bucket but is that overkill?
I need to submit 3 bottles so the first 6 were impeccably cleaned and sanitized. I usually keep the well rinsed bottles in the garage and just sanitize before filling. Due to my schedule this week I needed to get this done tonight, and after re-cleaning the first 32 bottles, I slacked and just sanitized the last 16 to save time....what a stupid move. As I shook out the last un-re-cleaned bottles from the san bucket I noticed some mold floating.
I've read a hundred "OMG is it ruined" threads but upon seeing the mold, I promptly forgot all the advice I have previously read! So....is it ruined lol. Seriously, I marked the bottles (clean+san vs. just san) so it's no biggie if I lost a few, but should I even try drinking them?
Also, I have yet to see this but I usually leave just the blow off in a bucket with 12" of sanitizer for the duration of fermentation with no issues. This time however I noticed some nasties (mold?) floating in the blowoff bucket. They appeared sometime in the last week. It has been quite warm, about 80* in the house, pretty good environment for growing that crap. I'm sure it didn't grow legs and crawl up the blow off to infect the batch. Am considering tossing the bucket but is that overkill?