| IAN75, Every one has a recipe to make homemade wine, and some even makes drinkable? wine, but there is nothing to equal the right way to do it..Rubber gloves and balloons and yes... even condoms, is not a sufficent air lock. Yes, you need to use wine yeast. I had a friend of mine that used self rising corn meal, "well it's got yeast in it"!! I asked him how the white swollen grit looking stuff tasted with the grapes he wasted... A mold on the wine does not mean you have lost the batch..Some fruits have a downright ugly 'must' that rises to the top of the container, that will dissolve in the future if you use a tested recipe. and finally... Only you can tell if you have made a time bomb.. I started the same way you did about twenty five years ago and actually thought I had made good wine, until I started, doing it the right way. MY advise to you is to GOOGLE the name JACK KELLER, WINE..And read the article . it will tell you what you need and how to do it...Good luck in the future. |
