Babbajabba
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We have recently started making wine. We thought we would start slow with a few kits and work up to doing something more complicated after we got into the flow of things.
Currently we have 4 DJ on the go. (All kit wine) Peach, strawberry, elderflower and rose.
The Elderflower and rose are still bubbling away after about 5 days, the strawberry having bubbled like mad and nearly frothing over, but now stopped. However, the Peach has been pretty quiet. There has been plenty of froth but no really action with the air lock. It went from clear to very cloudy within 3 days and now seems to be thick with sludge at the bottom, with a fine froth on top.
All the wines are in the airing cupboard. The temperature is a steady 25 -26 degrees and as I say, the other wines seem to be fine.
We've tested it with a hydrometer, and the kit says we are to wait for a consistent reading of 1004 to 1010 over two days. The test we done barely scraped 10!
We also tested a few drops with a vinometre and got 5% vol.
Please see attached photo's for what the sludge looks like.
What could have gone wrong?
Currently we have 4 DJ on the go. (All kit wine) Peach, strawberry, elderflower and rose.
The Elderflower and rose are still bubbling away after about 5 days, the strawberry having bubbled like mad and nearly frothing over, but now stopped. However, the Peach has been pretty quiet. There has been plenty of froth but no really action with the air lock. It went from clear to very cloudy within 3 days and now seems to be thick with sludge at the bottom, with a fine froth on top.
All the wines are in the airing cupboard. The temperature is a steady 25 -26 degrees and as I say, the other wines seem to be fine.
We've tested it with a hydrometer, and the kit says we are to wait for a consistent reading of 1004 to 1010 over two days. The test we done barely scraped 10!
We also tested a few drops with a vinometre and got 5% vol.
Please see attached photo's for what the sludge looks like.
What could have gone wrong?