Big Mistake

I noticed some mold growing around the lid of the fermenter when I went to take the final gravity reading on my Irish Red last night. I have been keeping the fermenter in a cooler and adding ice every day to maintain a constant temperature. I took off the lid to see what the beer looked like because I assumed it was contaminated. At the time, I saw what I thought was a big chunk of mold floating in the beer. I immediately brought the fermenter to the sink and starting pouring it out. It turns out it was just one of the hop sacks... (Ugh). The beer most likely was fine. I now know that most of the beer is salvageable even if there is mold actually in the fermenter.

I just put the first test bottles of the Pilothouse Pilsner and Witty Ging to the fridge. I only have a cooler big enough for one fermenter at a time, so the pipeline will be diminished after these two batches are done.