r/mead • u/tomfeltonsperkynips Intermediate • 2d ago

📷 Pictures 📷 Pasteurization Color Difference

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The color difference between the raspberry melomel on the right which is cooling after being pasteurized to the one in the pot which just started.

Both of these batches were started at the same time with the same ingredients in each.

Im pasteurizing them to halt fermentation.

I thought it was neat how fast the color changes when the yeast are dead.

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u/Symon113 Advanced 1d ago

Pasteurization can help with clearing also.

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u/lostinthesauceband 2d ago

Wait are those jars glass or plastic?

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u/ridbitty 2d ago

Glass. They’re pretty common fermenters. They work great.

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u/tomfeltonsperkynips Intermediate 2d ago

They're glass

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u/SpadesHeart 12h ago

It looks like you pasteurized quite early. Thats just the active yeast coming out of suspension after dying.