Mold?

[benvette]

I think I have mold. looks like white spores. how do I know for sure. In second, in glass carboy Please advise

 

[freisste]

I'm sure there are at-home test kits you can probably pick up at a hardware store and send to a lab for analysis.

Of course, you could always take a picture, attach it to your post, and some helpful members could give input...

 

[SDouglas82]

Tough to tell by the picture. You're ok if it looks like bubbles, but if it looks more like spider webs, you have an infection. Good luck.


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[heckler73]

look for the little lines of bubbles coming up from the yeast on the bottom. you're good to go, just bubbles.

 

[unionrdr]

Those aren't bubbles with those hairy little legs shooting of the clumps. Different kind of infection than I've seen up to this point.

 

[Revvy]

It's a crappy picture....looks like fizzy yeast rafts to me...but really it's too hard to tell from that image.

I like to try to remind folks that it's really HARD to infect beer or get mold on it, unless it's been sitting in a fermenter with a dried airlock for weeks or months.

You need to start from the premise that mold and problems ARE RARE.

If you took basic sanitary precautions, and it's only been a short time in the fermenter, ESPECIALLY if it's your first batch and you have noob nerves....more than likely everything is fine.

 

[benvette]

bubbles all around

 

[Revvy]

Looking on this computer, the image appears a little clearer... really does look like fizzy yeast rafts to me. All's good