Hey everyone,
I have been brewing in my attached garage - just inside the house is a laundry hookup not being used, so I use it as my water supply. I bought a 50ft RV drinking water hose, put some fittings on the end, and it works fantastic.
Today I noticed some white.. things floating in the water. It's small - doesn't look like flakes like you'd see from scale / mineral buildup (and we don't have hard water). I at first thought it may be some kind of white super thin plastic film (that's what it looks like), breaking down from the hose. The hose is only 2 years old.
I've been thinking, though - that hose sits full of household water for months on end. Maybe it's white mold.. :S
I used the water to make the beer, which of course was boiled for a full 60 minutes. Anything that touched the beer (autosiphon/racking tube, carboy) was thoroughly cleaned with diversol, rinsed (with this water source), and then sanitized using iodophor. If it was white mold, I'm hoping that I killed it! I've never, in my 10 years of brewing, had an infection. I now have two brews in carboys, and I hope they turn out.... I peeked at the beer just starting to ferment and I can spot a few such pieces of film in there. sigh!
My bigger question is - what is this? I can't find anything online about it. do these hoses break down in such short a time and give plastic gunk (that I could filter / avoid in bottling). Is this a common white mold?
If it's white mold / a biofilm, I can replace the hose... but how do I avoid it happening again?
Any thoughts? opinions? advice? keywords I can use to search google?
Thanks!!!
Update 1:
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Managed to get some more out of the hose, and concentrated in a pitcher.
If I collect a bunch on my finger and rub it, it makes milky white cloudy water. So it dissolves.
UPDATE 2:
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OK Lol.. Kids toy microscope let me get this
I have been brewing in my attached garage - just inside the house is a laundry hookup not being used, so I use it as my water supply. I bought a 50ft RV drinking water hose, put some fittings on the end, and it works fantastic.
Today I noticed some white.. things floating in the water. It's small - doesn't look like flakes like you'd see from scale / mineral buildup (and we don't have hard water). I at first thought it may be some kind of white super thin plastic film (that's what it looks like), breaking down from the hose. The hose is only 2 years old.
I've been thinking, though - that hose sits full of household water for months on end. Maybe it's white mold.. :S
I used the water to make the beer, which of course was boiled for a full 60 minutes. Anything that touched the beer (autosiphon/racking tube, carboy) was thoroughly cleaned with diversol, rinsed (with this water source), and then sanitized using iodophor. If it was white mold, I'm hoping that I killed it! I've never, in my 10 years of brewing, had an infection. I now have two brews in carboys, and I hope they turn out.... I peeked at the beer just starting to ferment and I can spot a few such pieces of film in there. sigh!
My bigger question is - what is this? I can't find anything online about it. do these hoses break down in such short a time and give plastic gunk (that I could filter / avoid in bottling). Is this a common white mold?
If it's white mold / a biofilm, I can replace the hose... but how do I avoid it happening again?
Any thoughts? opinions? advice? keywords I can use to search google?
Thanks!!!
Update 1:
----------
Managed to get some more out of the hose, and concentrated in a pitcher.
If I collect a bunch on my finger and rub it, it makes milky white cloudy water. So it dissolves.
UPDATE 2:
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OK Lol.. Kids toy microscope let me get this
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