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Hairyloon
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Failed wine.I had a load of messed up fruity sugary goo, and I figured the options were to throw it away, or to see if it would make wine. By my reckoning, pretty much anything with sugar in ought to be fermentable so I boiled it up and put it in a demijohn with some yeast.
It has shown no obvious sign of fermenting, but now has what appears to be a layer of blue mould on the top... which is a puzzle on a couple of counts: where did it come from, and how has it grown without blowing off any gas?
The easy answers are that the sterilising solution or the yeast compound is defective, and that it has done it slowly enough that I simply didn't notice any bubbles, but I'm not finding it entirely convincing.
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dpack
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too much sugar?
dead yeast?
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Hairyloon
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too much sugar?
dead yeast? |
These are theories that did cross my mind...
Water it down, boil it up and add fresh yeast?
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