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I was working with the wine today. I got a lot of bottling done. I came to the Catawba and some experimenting made me decide I needed to sweeten it to a dessert wine to balance the sugars to 1.025. I racked out a gallon and put in the sugar syrup I had made ahead, but it wasn't quite enough. I pured what wine from the gallon extra back in to top up. It left me with about 5 cups of catawba wine. Ah I thought- just enough to make a sugar syrup with the wine and sugar. I measured it out and it was 5 cups. I had it on the stove heating and dumped in the sugar and gave it a stir. It was dissoving and all of a sudden got a white frothy top on it. I stirred it some more. I stated out at about 3 inches down from the top. As I kept stirring, the foam kept growing, resembling marshmallow fluff, until it was ready to overflow. I had to quickly take it off the heat. I now have a six quart pot full of Catawba Wine Fluff!
Has anybody ever had this happen to them?
I guess I will have to restart the syrup and just use water!
Has anybody ever had this happen to them?
I guess I will have to restart the syrup and just use water!