Hi! I am a newbie to all of this, trying to figure my way around things!
So I have made a very basic muscadine wine. I found a recipe online as I had so many muscadine grapes. The recipe said to ferment the wine in bottles with cheese cloth over the tops. I had it in the laundry but the fruit flies drove me crazy as I was constantly battling them.
I moved the wine to a closet and now there are fruit flies in there AND some are in my wine bottles, floating...
I was going to throw it all out and call it quits. Hubby said no he wants to at least try some before we scratch it all.
Is my wine done for? How can I keep the pesky things out!?!
Also I have the wine in a closet as it is getting colder outside and I thought that might slow the fermenting process.
FYI, as stated I am trying this on a very basic level! no testing or anything has been done. I'll be reading up on here in case I give it another try to see what I need to do/buy.
So I have made a very basic muscadine wine. I found a recipe online as I had so many muscadine grapes. The recipe said to ferment the wine in bottles with cheese cloth over the tops. I had it in the laundry but the fruit flies drove me crazy as I was constantly battling them.
I moved the wine to a closet and now there are fruit flies in there AND some are in my wine bottles, floating...
I was going to throw it all out and call it quits. Hubby said no he wants to at least try some before we scratch it all.
Is my wine done for? How can I keep the pesky things out!?!
Also I have the wine in a closet as it is getting colder outside and I thought that might slow the fermenting process.
FYI, as stated I am trying this on a very basic level! no testing or anything has been done. I'll be reading up on here in case I give it another try to see what I need to do/buy.