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  1. Stella

    If I have a white moldy layer on top of wine is there anything I can do?

    Great! Thank you. I have some SO2 and I will get right on that. Thanks again.
  2. Stella

    If I have a white moldy layer on top of wine is there anything I can do?

    Hello there is a white moldy layer on top of my wine. I didn't have a chance to siphon it from bucket into bottle and forgot to put anti-bacterial, etc. in. Anything else I might just toss it but this was Rosehip & Hawthorne Berry wine and it was AMAZING. Any help would be appreciated.
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Everyone is so nice and helpful here. What a wonderful place. Thank you so much. (I'll try and remember that this isn't 'Winemakinghandholdertalk' lol.)
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Thank you. It's a lot of headspace (more than half the 5 gal. container) and the wine is about two weeks old (correction: 1 week and 2 days). I will put it into a smaller container. I just did too much too soon knowing too little lol. A little overwhelmed and just want to get it all to where I...
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Thanks. I really am getting better at patience. Speaking of patience, I have a couple of gallons of wine in a 5 gallon container at 1.000 SG. Can I just leave it in there for a little while or do I need to deal with that headspace?
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    What is happening in my wine? (video)

    Thanks a lot Ohio Bob! Simple enough.
  7. Stella

    What is happening in my wine? (video)

    [Please see short video via attached gif] This is a raspberry wine in a 1 gallon carboy. It's SG is 1.010 and there was about an inch of lees (I have racked it to a new bottle). Is this just elements of lees being carried up by bubbles, then when the bubble pops the "stuff" falls back down...
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Oh my goodness my favorite is raspberry sorbet and I will have so much leftover raspberry when I do my first racking pretty soon. I will have to look into that since I don't really like diluting with water so I have lots of leftovers. I have one wine that is Honeycrisp apples and Red pear...
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Thank you winemaker81! The only pretty picture I have so far is of a carboy of this rasberry wine I'm working on. I swear that is the most beautiful and juiciest color I've ever seen. I'm so determined to achieve a taste experience that can go with the visual. I mean in a glass it's just going...
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Thank you for making me feel welcome. I signed up after seeing how helpful and patient people with experience are around here. I did these first 8 gallons on my own and it's amazing how easy it is as a beginner to make something halfway decent but I want to do much better than that. I really...
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Thank you! I guess if it's peach pulp there isn't anything I can do to prevent it but if it was krausen I thought maybe it was something that I did and could change. This peach wine was the least enjoyable to deal with but so far it's my favorite in taste and smell. I will definitely be making...
  12. Stella

    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Thanks so much for the reply. That picture is what mine looked like, real foamy. I guess since most recipes only use a few pounds of fruit I didn't come across the pulp situation. Well it's certainly worth it since it does come to a gallon of wine (the rest is in another carboy waiting for me to...
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    I could have sworn I came across images of wine where people said it was krausen and I really thought I had looked into it enough so that I wouldn't be sounding so ignorant on this forum. Sorry 'bout that.
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    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Oh ok. When I strained the wine and it was all normal liquid again, it would turn back into that situation in the picture, except the foamy stuff was on top. Then I scooped the foamy stuff out and it was all liquid again but went back to the foam floating. But still, this situation isn't...
  15. Stella

    Major krausen issue with my Peach wine w/photo

    Really disappointing when this krausen (it is krausen right? When it was floating on top it looked exactly like all the images I saw online of "krausen") showed up and has never gone away and I mean, just look at the picture. I had to put the wine in ice water to make it drop so I can rack it...
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