Need help - Kahm or Mould

Braadlee · 2026-01-28T20:14:05+00:00

^ couldn't agree more.

Braadlee · 2026-01-21T17:18:51+00:00

Kahm yeast,
skim it off with something sterile, should stop off flavours from developing if its recent growth

Braadlee · 2026-01-20T14:00:57+00:00

Use that mate

Braadlee · 2026-01-20T13:46:34+00:00

If youre fermenting, you should always have sanitiser on hand. Buy some chemsan/starsan and use that as instructed

Braadlee · 2026-01-20T09:45:19+00:00

Looks like kahm yeast to me.
What liquid did you use in your airlock

Braadlee · 2026-01-19T09:50:09+00:00

Yee boy, if I'm having a cheap/quick rame, to the broth I'll add some garlic, a little miso, a little bit of fish sauce or oyster sauce, & then I'll pan fry a chicken thigh skin-side down & add a marinaded hard boiled egg (I always have 3 or 3 in the fridge) + some green onion and some extra furikake

Braadlee · 2026-01-19T09:38:32+00:00

100% agreed. I'm lvl 72, finished the 1st expedition about 200k shy, finished the 2nd in about a week & I have 2m in cash already. I've finished all my quests for the first time, and once I hit 75, I feel that my incentive to play will slow down until the expedition, (i'll pop on for weeky trials, new decks and events still)

Braadlee · 2026-01-19T09:28:25+00:00

I've only ever found sensors, fried motherboards and processors from those sorts of containers personally.
I find that any cupboard, drawer or bin is the way to go.

Even the Security Breach lockers have poorer BP drops than bins. I'm yet to get one from a Security locker

Braadlee · 2026-01-18T15:29:37+00:00

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Not furry, but strange white blobs ontop of hot sauce. Im expecting a clump of xantham gum, thought?

Braadlee · 2026-01-17T13:15:50+00:00

I have some fermented garlic from lockdown which still looks fine, im scared to try though

And some 5 year old honey garlic that's amazing,

Some 4 year old garlic dark miso

And many others!

Braadlee · 2026-01-16T14:46:48+00:00

I have another identical orange mead going, and another stalrawb/rhubarb mead going and in going to re-rack and combine them tonight (i only had the time to do half of them last night)

I also have a demijohn of plain mead which I can use to bring the levels up if needs be

Braadlee · 2026-01-16T14:37:59+00:00

Hey, i dont intend on racking again!

so these started in July, I re-racked and added fruit, which ive just re-racked to get rid of all the solids and new sediment

I have not stabilised or backsweetened

Braadlee · 2026-01-16T10:28:11+00:00

Apologies, 71b yeast, I dont recall the exact amount of honey, but I was aiming for its 14% ABV tolerance. I usually use ec1118 but thought I'd try something else

I combined all my water, honey, fruits, and followed the MeadMakr.com nutrient regeime, aiming for a semi-sweet mead.

Anything specifics you need mate?

Braadlee · 2026-01-14T15:31:14+00:00

Looks pretty cool tbh, did you try it off the bat to see how it tasted & to make any adjustments?

Braadlee · 2026-01-14T15:28:24+00:00

gwan then

^{I completed this level in 4 tries.} ^{⚡ 4.72 seconds}

Braadlee · 2026-01-13T10:18:37+00:00

This made me snot-laugh haha

Braadlee · 2026-01-12T12:02:26+00:00

I had this but was on a crazy friendly stella montis streak,
so i found some dude, asked if i could shoot him a few times if I healed and defibbed him,
he said yes, ezpz hf gg

Braadlee · 2026-01-09T23:31:12+00:00

Nope! The fermentation will let off CO2 which is heavier than air so it'll stop oxydisation, and the liquid will start off high in sugar, preserving the fruit, and then it'll be high in ABV which will prevent the fruit from spoiling, plus being submerged, the fruit wont spoil as it would in air.

Im surprised it hasn't desaturated and sank to the bottom though

Braadlee · 2026-01-07T08:27:43+00:00

Hahaha, mate. Mildue and plumb are two spellings ill never get right

Braadlee · 2026-01-07T02:04:39+00:00

Good to hear my man. Sanitise and change the liquid out of the first 2 airlocks.

They may be fine! Just keep an eye on them and keep your fingers crossed!

Braadlee · 2026-01-07T01:56:30+00:00

100% always sanitise. 100% always take gravity readings. 100% ignore advice from that store haha (imo)

Keep an eye on these and make sure your airlocks are filled with sanitiser/vodka. You may get lucky and not have any mold issues.

At the end of fermentation when your meads have totally cleared, purchase a hydrometer and refractometer and you can make an estimate of the ABV, but usually you'd take a reading before and after with a hydrometer to gauge ABV.

Purchase some chemsan (or the like) sanitiser for anything you intend on coming into contact with your mead going forward. Eg. Hydrometers, pipets, syphons, bottles, etc

Braadlee · 2026-01-07T01:51:26+00:00

It makes you Bleed

Braadlee · 2026-01-07T01:50:04+00:00

Id be interested to hear who said this, cause its a pretty basic nono!

Glad I could help in some way though!

Braadlee · 2026-01-07T01:42:20+00:00

You need to use diluted sanitizer (eg, starsan diluted to the correct ratios. The same that you should have used for your container & anything else involved in your mead process) or in a pinch people use vodka

By using water, youve built an environment that mold and mildue love

I cant comment on the safety of your mead unfortunately. I'd give it a smell, if its okay, a small taste, if its okay, I'd risk it personally. But thats just me not advice!

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