50 year old homemade wine

[timberdog]

I am getting ready to start making my own wine but I have a question that has been bugging me. ( pardon the pun) Last fall sitting around a campfire with some friends one of my buddies went into his fathers basement to get some 50 year-old wine in a oak barrel. It tasted ok and drank about 3-4 glasses before there was enough light from the fire I notice some maggot like bugs swimming around the wine. They where about the size of a fruit fly very small. I didnt get sick or anything but in your opinion what was it ?

 

[novalou]

I am getting ready to start making my own wine but I have a question that has been bugging me. ( pardon the pun) Last fall sitting around a campfire with some friends one of my buddies went into his fathers basement to get some 50 year-old wine in a oak barrel. It tasted ok and drank about 3-4 glasses before there was enough light from the fire I notice some maggot like bugs swimming around the wine. They where about the size of a fruit fly very small. I didnt get sick or anything but in your opinion what was it ?

Fruit flies.

 

[petriach]

Just some extra protein

 

[Inner10]

Fruit flies love wine...The main purpose of an airlock is to keep the dead fruit flies out of your wine.

 

[saramc]

Well, they are not dead fruit flies....maggot like bugs swimming....in the wine. Since this is a 50 year old+ barrel I bet there is a solid bung.

 

[Inner10]

Were they actually moving? It would take a pretty robust buggling to live in wine...drain flies maybe?

 

[saramc]

Vinegar eels thrive in raw vinegar. Those things are NASTY. I bet the a similar 'worm' can live in an old barrel. Gives me the ick factor.

 

[Inner10]

Vinegar eels thrive in raw vinegar. Those things are NASTY. I bet the a similar 'worm' can live in an old barrel. Gives me the ick factor.

Good call, I have a friend that works in a lab and studies nematodes and he spoke off these. To live in wine though wouldn't there have to be a vinegar "mother" present?

 

[Ostomo517]

Dammit!! Read this post as I started in on my bowl of Fruit Loops, gross lol

 

[saramc]

Good call, I have a friend that works in a lab and studies nematodes and he spoke off these. To live in wine though wouldn't there have to be a vinegar "mother" present?

No, because they can exist in essentially any fermented food/liquid. I just do not know what they call the wine ones...wine eels? LOL.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Sorry, don't know, but just got chills.

 

[Behemoth]

I am getting ready to start making my own wine but I have a question that has been bugging me. ( pardon the pun) Last fall sitting around a campfire with some friends one of my buddies went into his fathers basement to get some 50 year-old wine in a oak barrel. It tasted ok and drank about 3-4 glasses before there was enough light from the fire I notice some maggot like bugs swimming around the wine. They where about the size of a fruit fly very small. I didnt get sick or anything but in your opinion what was it ?

That must be some good sheeit!