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Here's my latest. Was a beautiful lacto, I raised the temp to get the yeast to fire back up, it did not. Killed the heat, lacto came back.

This is my Double Lacto Candy Bear.
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Too bad you didn't post this a couple days ago. I just ran off a rum that had about an inch of white fluffy funk on top that I have no idea what the hell it was. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture :(
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Cranky, you trying to make shine from penicillin. You may just find the cure for the common cold.
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Deerhunter wrote:Cranky, you trying to make shine from penicillin. You may just find the cure for the common cold.
I'm pretty sure this rum will cure just about anything that ails you. I used infected dunder in the ferment which is where the funk came from and the fermenter had a loose fitting top so the infection was expected. The rum tastes pretty good too :D
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I had the same on my most recent rum... syphoned off most of the liquid, and was left with a whole whack of slimy stuff. Ran the rum and it was the worst thing to come out of my still. New batch started right away with same Dundee..added more sugar and yeast with tomato paste. Wait and see now
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i must live in lacto land. left a stillage full of stillage...a few days later cracked the top, i was pretty surprised to see a moonscape in there... it was boiling for a few hours. man that shit has to be temp and low ph resistant.

could not have been airborne, the still was closed since the cook.
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I was vary of opening this, was expecting all sorts of infected personal bits
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Lacto has become the norm for me if I don't sanitize or leave a lid loose. I even get it in my cooling reservoir.
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Not sure if this one counts, it grew in a tub of UJSM backset that I forgot to throw out.
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Your pictures bring this thread to a higher level. :sick: :mrgreen:
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Lol. Wow, that's awesome. Complete with the holding of it. Looks like liver in your hand. Or soured octopus. :clap:
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LOL , I can relate to the "thing " Salty found in his UJ backset ...seems these scobies are quite happy to grow in this sort of environment .

Here's what I found in my Rum dunder...incidentally , this is what convinced me to piss off scanky Dunder and only do reasonably fresh stuff :oops:
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And here's another ,again , growing in a left over stilling in my boiler :oops: after a scotch strip
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And heres another from left over stillage in the boiler...weetbix allbran IRRC
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Now I know why you're called Yummyrum, not Cleanneutral.
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Pretty sure I've posted these elsewhere, but it might be nice to have them all here as a funk library.
I give to you, my Infections Archive:
Rum Dunder (the little red spot and blue spot freaked me out):
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Like yummyrum's stick, I used a spoon, not as fearless as Saltbush Bill. :shock:
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One of my first lactos, a classic:
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A neglected whiskey trub funk bucket, not even sure what's going on in here:
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Another lacto induced by Funk Bucket during fermentation:
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Sweet Potato Mash Lacto:
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SBB, after i did my finger in a while back, a machinist buddy sez " never stick your hand where ya wouldn't stick yer dick!"

and no, i don't want to know. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :sick: :silent: :moresarcasm:
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Ive heard that before HDNB, and a wise man once told me, never to put my dick in anything I wouldn't eat.
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therefore...wait a minute...(calculating on finger and toes)

ohmygawd! :shock: you ate some of that???!!! :lol:
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HDNB wrote:ohmygawd! :shock: you ate some of that???!!! :lol:
I didn't say I believe everything I'm told. :ewink:
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Saltbush Bill wrote:Not sure if this one counts, it grew in a tub of UJSM backset that I forgot to throw out.
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This one just made me puke a little bit....
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lacto 1.jpg
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Lacto.... so pretty. Eating some of my product but turning in into gold along the way!
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It just keeps getting better...
It just keeps getting better...
Looks like the surface of the moon.
Looks like the surface of the moon.
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So just to clarify, is this lacto type infections...good for product. Mine looked like the thick brow stuff being held by Saltbush. Clear and run it? Pls and thanks
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Grappa-Gringo wrote:So just to clarify, is this lacto type infections...good for product. Mine looked like the thick brow stuff being held by Saltbush. Clear and run it? Pls and thanks
GG

GG if you are referring to my infection then yes! That lacto, while stealing a little bit of the alcohol in the wash, is providing my bourbon with some beautiful flavors. I have had it in every single bourbon I have made... I think it came in either on my rye or on the TSC cracked corn but I'm not complaining!

I siphon the beer off through one of my special socks into the boiler and run her! Not one complaint.


As far as what SBB has going on there....WHEW! That s**t looks like pure EVIL :twisted: .
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Grappa-Gringo wrote: Mine looked like the thick brow stuff being held by Saltbush.
I have no idea what that was, it grew in a bucket of UJSM backset I left laying around.
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Saltbush Bill wrote:
Grappa-Gringo wrote: Mine looked like the thick brow stuff being held by Saltbush.
I have no idea what that was, it grew in a bucket of UJSM backset I left laying around.
To translate gooseyes comment and identify that...mother of vinegar.
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jb-texshine wrote:
Saltbush Bill wrote:
Grappa-Gringo wrote: Mine looked like the thick brow stuff being held by Saltbush.
I have no idea what that was, it grew in a bucket of UJSM backset I left laying around.
To translate gooseyes comment and identify that...mother of vinegar.

i believe kombucha has something similar going on
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Good thing I wasn't hungry. You fellas actually run this stuff
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jdetechguy wrote:Good thing I wasn't hungry. You fellas actually run this stuff

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I hear that those health food nuts eat that mother of vinegar scobie thing.....
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