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So it's oil after all! Thanks for the diagnosis. I'll do the lettuce trick at some point, but for now I'm just going to let it ferment. Acai oil is supposed to be really good for you, so maybe I'll use it for cooking or something. Skittles wine?! How was that??

Ok, I just racked it. Looking into the bottle, these globs totally look like oil, which is really odd. I racked it until the globs nearly got to the tubing, and then stopped. It looks like a tiny bit of them got into the new fermenter, which is irritating. We'll see if they grow or not. Here are...

Could these black globules actually be oil of some kind?! I just swirled that jug, and some of the globules joined together like bubbles of oil would. I also discovered that my pH strips are for pools/spas, not wine, and they only go down to 6.4. I think I might just go ahead and rack it and...

Thanks for your responses. I, too, was thinking that it's weird to have mold in an airlocked, actively fermenting container. Here are my acai blend ingredients: organic acai juice (filtered water, organic fair trade acai puree), organic agave syrup, organic lime juice, contains less than 0.5%...

Hmm, I'm just now reading that A. Niger is used in nearly all commercial production of citric acid. It would certainly be nice if that's all it produces in my wine.

Hello! I recently discovered winemaking, and so I've naturally decided to try and make wine out of unconventional things. Four days ago I started fermenting 1 gallon of an acai juice blend made by Sambazon. I made a yeast starter, which I pitched after about 36 hours when it was cloudy and...