Submitted 3 days ago by birdcannon@lemmy.world to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
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Raspberry peanut butter mead, this happened after racking into tertiary. Primary and secondary had raspberries freefloating in the container, so it miiiight just be floating bits of raspberry. When I shake it up, they briefly sink and float back up.
Peanut oil
Yea this would be my hypothesis too.
Use your nose that’ll be more reliable than visual. And generally if it’s not fuzzy it’s not mold. If you’re really worried just don’t drink it. But to me it looks like pulp or maybe pectin
I was hoping it was just pulp, and it smells pretty nice, thank you for affirming
That looks to me like the shells of the drupelets of the raspberries that have been squashed, so all of the colored juice has come out. Presumably racking it over also liberated some co2 which caused it to float. I would refrain from opening the fermenter cause every time you do, you let in O2 and roll the dice on infection.
Those look like fat, juicy larvae to my untrained eye.
Looks like chunks of berries, not like mold. How did you rack exactly?
Sniffing it is your best analysis available. Just scoop some and sniff, if you don’t like it, you won’t like the rest!
I use an auto siphon, sanitizing everything of course. Primary had freefloating raspberries, then same with secondary when backsweetening. Racked to tertiary after a week and that’s when this appeared, and I had never seen that before in a batch.
You make a great point in that I could definitely just scoop it out, then if it returns I have my answer. Thank you!
Looks like a mix of yeast and possibly an infection, but I distill so filth means shit to me and I shouldn’t be trusted.
Sanitation is why I went from brewing to distilling.
Sanitation? Username checks out lol.
Hlodwig@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Peanut butter ? Its not because you can do something that you should…
What does it smell? Nice subtle yeast odor or an odd/off odor?
It doesn’t look like mold, but it could be unwanted bacteria biofilms which should smell bad…
birdcannon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Curiosity inspires!
It smells like honey and peanuts, nothing off
Hlodwig@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But how did you include the peanut butter ? Yeast can’t digest fat and if you have a thin layer of oil on top of your mix (fat and water never mix), then bad things can happen on top of this layer.
But if it doesn’t smell off then you are normaly ok.