KrausenBoy
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Hi to all,
I hope this is the correct forum section.
Yesterday I was ready to bottle my first AG brew (a SMaSh Kölsch), when, while taking a sample for the hydrometer, I noticed that two green mold balls went in the hydrometer glass. After some cuss words I opened the lid of my bucket fermenter and there was not mold floating on the beer (mold float, right?) and the smell was quite good, not moldy at all. So I decided to rack the beer in the bottling bucket and when finished the yeast cake at the bottom of the fermenter was as usual, without any sign of mold. I took another sample from the bottling bucket, the beer was good and, again, not moldy at all so I decided to bottle the beer and hope for the best.
The mold was not visible from the exterior of my fermenter spigot so I think it was growing somewhere inside the spigot itself, probably due to some residual sweet wort left in the spigot from past hydrometer measurements. This was my 6th brew and the first time I have ever encountered this problem. Btw the spigot went straight to the trash can.
After 3 weeks of fermentation at 65.5F the FG was 1.010, the lowest I ever had, but not so low to suggest that something different from the pitched wlp029 "overdigested" the wort (am I right on this?). Btw the OG was low too, only 1.041. This was my first AG and I end up with a barely decent 65% efficiency.
So my question is: do you guys think that, despite not noticeable, I could end up with mold growing in the bottles of my beloved first AG brew?
thanks
I hope this is the correct forum section.
Yesterday I was ready to bottle my first AG brew (a SMaSh Kölsch), when, while taking a sample for the hydrometer, I noticed that two green mold balls went in the hydrometer glass. After some cuss words I opened the lid of my bucket fermenter and there was not mold floating on the beer (mold float, right?) and the smell was quite good, not moldy at all. So I decided to rack the beer in the bottling bucket and when finished the yeast cake at the bottom of the fermenter was as usual, without any sign of mold. I took another sample from the bottling bucket, the beer was good and, again, not moldy at all so I decided to bottle the beer and hope for the best.
The mold was not visible from the exterior of my fermenter spigot so I think it was growing somewhere inside the spigot itself, probably due to some residual sweet wort left in the spigot from past hydrometer measurements. This was my 6th brew and the first time I have ever encountered this problem. Btw the spigot went straight to the trash can.
After 3 weeks of fermentation at 65.5F the FG was 1.010, the lowest I ever had, but not so low to suggest that something different from the pitched wlp029 "overdigested" the wort (am I right on this?). Btw the OG was low too, only 1.041. This was my first AG and I end up with a barely decent 65% efficiency.
So my question is: do you guys think that, despite not noticeable, I could end up with mold growing in the bottles of my beloved first AG brew?
thanks