Oh I know but I like to try it to see if I am going to like it, I like dryer wines but I am learning that not every fruit tastes good super dry. So, I have to re-think my standpoint on what is wine, the cranberry tasted like a mixed drink almost, so tart and refreshing cold that I even popped it with my carbonator to give it a little pop. SO good I wished I would have done the whole batch.
But, I have also learned (from the watermelon wine) that waiting 6 weeks into a fermentation process and learing that the wine tastes horrible and then dumping 6 gallons and six weeks of waiting down the drain was heart wrenching, I am just SO so so glad I tasted it at six weeks and realized it was just that bad and was not getting better, I also learned that leaving a watermelon on the counter for 2 1/2 weeks and it smelled rank that you do NOT make wine from it thinking well it has already started to ferment. Ferment and Rot are not the same thing Philly boy.
So it sounds like the clumps are just a product of the yeast and carbonation and I will "punch it down" more often. Here is to a very yummy strawberry wine. I have to say it smelled SO good tonight that I wanted to taste it but knew it would just taste like Strawberry and Yeast.
