i think it's all gone to pot... sadly, there are now "things" floating suspended in the brew. I'd left it since the 11th of October to start clearing, it's still pretty cloudy, but now has things which look like white grains weroith small fiberous tails attached.
I guess this isn't normal and it's become contaminated.
This is absolutley frustrating and annoying.
For starters, it took a biblical age to ferment, I hydro'd it after a calender month and it was only at 10% - I thought it was meant to be done in 8-10 days?
I decided to stablise and campden it.
After 48 hours I added the finining, it's been sat there now for over 2 weeks, I WAS about to message on here and ask how long can I leave it - just thinking about wine oxidising an ruining if it's not capped and sealed.
I sampled it about a week ago, it was tasting okay, sweet and pleasent, but more importantly the complete pea soup fog and cleared a bit and looked as though it was on the way to being crystal.
I looked again this morning and like I said, it's about as clear as it was a week ago, except with this F******* lumps of S*** in it.
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So, is it screwed?
Can this be filtered out?