RUINED?!

[Landon Sharp]

So, I have been brewing a very sweet mead with cinnamon powder in it, probably put way to much cinnamon whatever. Anyways I have had the balloon like this for a few days no fully sealed but kind of loosely stretched over it and I came back to look at it and their is mold growing over the mead. Covering the nozzle, do I need to pour it out? There's like black dots in it super weird!

The weird white fuzzy pictures are down the neck of the bottle.

 

[bernardsmith]

Looks a lot like the froth and foam that is the result of active yeast. In brewing this is called "krausen" - and the froth is quite normal. Looks like it may have dried on the glass as the activity of the yeast became less aggressive as more of the available sugars were eaten up. The thing to do is taste your mead. Seriously. No chef or cook prepares any dish and takes a hands off approach to their cooking. People who cook (not the same as a cook) often do but that highlights their lack of fundamental understanding of what they are doing..

That said, it looks as though your micro batch is a little low in the neck of the bottle. You would be better protecting this from oxidation if the wine (or mead) was higher up into the neck and did not sit below the shoulder of the bottle...

 

[RPh_Guy]

It's difficult to tell from the photo. The dark specks may be cinnamon.
While it might be krausen, I'm leaning more toward pellicle or maybe mold.

Mold growth is fuzzy. If you look closely are there fuzzy hair-like growths on the layer?

 

[Landon Sharp]

It's difficult to tell from the photo. The dark specks may be cinnamon.
While it might be krausen, I'm leaning more toward pellicle or maybe mold.

Mold growth is fuzzy. If you look closely are there fuzzy hair-like growths on the layer?

If it is mold would it need tossed out?

 

[RPh_Guy]

If it is mold would it need tossed out?

That's the safe thing to do. Mold is allergenic and some produce toxins & carcinogens.

It looks more like a pellicle to me but that's just a guess because I can't really see the texture too well.