Just an update, racked into carboy from the primary fermenting bucket. went from a brownish orange to an almost koolaid red within just 2 days without adding or altering anything else. standard gravity has gone down slightly, but I think fermentation had been stalled due to the high sugar content.
I just made the must for my first batch. My must does not seem to have any color at all however. When I took the hydrometer reading (1.12, way too high for what I was aiming) the liquid didn't even have even a faint trace of pink, though the fruit bits floating appear to have had all of the...