I have a hale gallon jar of hab mash (freminting?) which had grown some white stuff on top surface only after about a week. I scraped it all off, added more salt and heated it to kill any bad guys. The salt contration is more than 20%. I added no water to the mash just salt. The white stuff came back in a few days. There has been no noticable fizzing of bubbles gererated science August when I started it. Should'nt there be noticable gas release during the fermation process? > Notwithstanding, my tabasco mash with 18% NaCl is growing a white mould. > Does anyone know if there are any potentially dangerous moulds (to humans) > which can tolerate these conditions? (If there are any mycologists on the > list I could provide pictures at any useful magnification.) ======================================================= Uncle Steve's Hot Stuff Check our new web site! http://www.zyworld.com/snearman/Uncle-Steve-Home.htm =======================================================