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Is it mold? (More pics in body) (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/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.

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[–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Curiosity inspires!

It smells like honey and peanuts, nothing off

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Funny thing is, apparently, yeast can metabolize fat - according to Dr. White, they can use available fat instead of synthesizing their own using oxygen on growth stage to build new cell walls. It's not a lot of fat they need though, but quite measurable amount, and only on exponential growth.

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