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I’ve been looking further into this, and I think it’s lactic acidosis bacteria, Pediococcus damnosis. I think the reason it only affects my elderflower is because it’s got no fruit in, and has a higher pH. Pd likes it around 5.5, normal fruit must is around 3.5. This is why the only other post...

Hello- I’ve just read this post after sending a question of my own about this. This ‘glooping’ happens often to my elderflower wine, three or four days into fermentation. Like you say, it smells and tastes fine, not ‘off’. No one seems to know what causes it, or even what it is, and it’s very...

Please help; I make various types of wine, all of which are successful except one; elderflower Champaign. In about half of the batches I make, it turns to a gloop with the consistency of egg-whites after about four days of fermenting. It smells and tastes fine. What is happening? Nobody seems to...