White foam

[Linetec]

Just curious if any of you guys or gals have seen this in your juice pails? It looks like white residue but when stirred he fizzes and foams up a bit..,

 

[mainshipfred]

Just curious if any of you guys or gals have seen this in your juice pails? It looks like white residue but when stirred he fizzes and foams up a bit..,

That's normal, it shows you have an active fermentation. Some yeasts foam more than others. If you haven't yet added yeast it could be the native yeast but the companies that make the buckets are so secretive they could have already added it.

 

[Linetec]

That's normal, it shows you have an active fermentation. Some yeasts foam more than others. If you haven't yet added yeast it could be the native yeast but the companies that make the buckets are so secretive they could have already added it.

This is 6 days into fermentation. Almost looks like some sort of bacteria at first but it dissipates when stirred up and forms a foam. Just want to make sure I don’t have anything else going on…

 

[balatonwine]

Your first photo is simply an example of random spatial perturbation of "foam" from the fermentation process. That is, it is not bacterial colonies forming.

 

[stickman]

Sometimes condensation can form on the lid and drip back onto the surface causing different color spots, especially if k-meta was used as a sanitizer which will cause temporary color bleaching of the spots.

 

[Linetec]

That’s what I was thinking but you never know. Thanks for the input