Mold on stout

[Dr. Fedwell]

I brew and keg extract beers with great success in Haiku HI. It is very wet and moldy here, but not always too warm to make ales where I make the beer. I recenlty had a white thin film and smokey bubbles( a few) of what looks like white mold cover the top on a stout after ten days in a secondary. There was even a little white build up on the side of the carboy at the top of the beer. I racked the beer into the keg and left the slime behind (except what touched the tip of the racking cane when I first poked through it). Will this beer be safe to consume? I have not tasted it yet.

 

[Whelk]

I hate to say it, but it does sorta sound like it's infected. Can't say I'd recommend drinking it, but hey, it's up to you.

 

[Fish]

I have been watching my stout with simular questions. Basically there has been a few steady streams of what I am pretty sure are small bubbles coming up from the cake. I am pretty sure its bubbles because I cannot spoon it out. It hasn't changed gravity in about a week so I don't know what it doing. I am just going to give it some time and see what happens.

 

[Whelk]

Aah, time, the great healer of wounds (and beer). Yeah, waiting is the best thing to do.

 

[onecolumbyte]

Should be safe to consume. "No know pathogens can survive in beer" (Joy of Homebrewing). Don't know how it'll taste but it shouldn't hurt you.