AABassMaster
Active Member
On Friday I brewed a stout and during the boil I added 4 oz of ground espresso beans because I thought it would taste good. Everything went swimmingly. I thoroughly cleaned the fermentation bucket and the airlock, but forgot to clean the lid of the bucket. It had been sitting around since the last homebrew I made a month ago. I opened up the bucket last night and the entire top of the wort was a half inch thick layer of mold.
My question is: Is there any chance that putting the espresso in during the boil somehow caused the mold, or was it definitely some mold hanging around on the lid or maybe in the bucket that I missed? I'm going to try this again tonight, and I have THOROUGHLY cleaned everything twice. I'm just wondering if maybe there is something in the espresso that could have caused the mold.
Thanks in advance.
My question is: Is there any chance that putting the espresso in during the boil somehow caused the mold, or was it definitely some mold hanging around on the lid or maybe in the bucket that I missed? I'm going to try this again tonight, and I have THOROUGHLY cleaned everything twice. I'm just wondering if maybe there is something in the espresso that could have caused the mold.
Thanks in advance.