<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">This may be bad news.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yeast, when fermenting, simply makes the mead cloudy (plus producing CO2).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you see ropey, mucus like stuff this may very well be a bacterial infection.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Leave it alone for several days and then pull the the cork/airlock and smell it. If it as a slightly acidic yeasty smell all is well. If it has a foul smell then it most likely has a bacterial infection.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">________________________</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>H.L. Barat FitzWalter Reynolds</B></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">M.K.A. Stephen Pursley</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Barony of Namron</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Kingdom of Ansteorra</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 26, 2006, at 3:02 PM, scott melton wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">ok someone set my mind at ease, my airlock is burping so i figure my yeast is doing well, should it look like there is chunks of well how do i say it (snot ) in the mixture? is that the yeast culture at work?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Namron mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Namron@ansteorra.org">Namron@ansteorra.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/namron">http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/namron</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>