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le0n:
Thanks. I'm trying to think ahead just in case I need to stabilize it with the Kmeta at the end. I'll definitely test the some samples before dosing. This batch may get back-sweetened after it completely dries. We'll see what it tastes like at the end of the run ;)

This batch has about a pound of strawberries/raspberries in it, plus a pound of black grapes. No bananas or raisins this time.

Pat B:
I have some Japanese beautyberry with white berries. I wonder if they will make white wine.  ::)

le0n:
^^ That would be interesting.

Let me read on that.

Edit: they are edible too. Berries are just smaller and white.

le0n:
Just in case no one here has had the opportunity to look inside one of these small fermenters during the first few days, I recorded a 14 second clip to show the action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKXFg7XJoNo

Unlike the last batch, this one is being done without the skins/pulp. So there's no pulp cap to break up each night.

Instead of a shirt/cloth over the top, I just used the screw-on lid and put a cotton ball in the air lock hole to keep any bugs out. Get this though, a fruit fly landed on the cotton ball last night before I got home. I was wondering if he was going to try to get past the cotton ball. Upon closer inspection, he was dead. I'm guessing the gasses coming off killed him?

TrevorM:
Good thing you had the cotton wool ball, fruit fly's carry Acetobacterium. You would have ended up with one large batch of vinegar...

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