Faux Pas!

[Colin143]

Okay, so I've done a cock up!!
Made some wine without checking for preservatives.... So, its all in the DJ, grape juice, cherry concentrate, tannin, pectolase, yeast & nutrient and bugger all has happened for 18 hours, so I checked & the bloody cherry stuff has preservative in it. Can I boil up the lot & re add the yeast & nutrient or is it going down the plug hole?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I would give it more time, take a hydrometer reading over a couple of days to see if its fermenting.

I tried a Ribena wine when i first started, i boiled it as instructed, it took weeks to get down to 1020, i gave up in the end and poured it down the sink, i don't believe boiling gets rid of it all the preservative but i guess there is no harm in trying.

 

[Colin143]

Okay, thanks. Absolutely no bubbles tho :-(

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It's colder in our houses so that combined with the preservatives may make it ferment really slowly, you will have to give it time and probably a long time or bin it and put it down to a lesson learned the hard way.

 

[Colin143]

Well, good news!! I have fermentation!!!! Its on my bucket heater pad so its about 25 degrees. nothing for 4 days but now there is some froth on the surface & a few bubbles in the trap :-)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Keep us posted. :thumb: