Fermenting Wine Stinks

[arcsum68]

way more than any beer ive ever done has.

The room its in smells awful.

 

[BierMuncher]

Yeah...but it's a good stink.

 

[Pogo]

roogan -

Using a cat, and/or a litterbox, as a point of reference regarding the appropriateness of how something smells is really funny!

ha ha ha

Pogo

 

[Toppers]

Why do people complain about fermenting smells from -anything- ?

Hey you are making alcohol in your home, be grateful and suck it up. It's a biological process after all.

 

[Smogre]

I ain't sorry. Oak, Grapes, Berries, Yeasties, maltyness, hoppiness and that fermenting stuff smells like frickin heaven to me. You don't like it? Go make some perfume and stop cluttering up the threads with this Blasphemy!

:rockin:

 

[arcsum68]

Why do people complain about fermenting smells from -anything- ?

Hey you are making alcohol in your home, be grateful and suck it up. It's a biological process after all.

I dont think I complained at all, more of a statement than anything.

Bad mood?

 

[gratus fermentatio]

way more than any beer ive ever done has.

The room its in smells awful.

I've never had an unpleasant smelling fermentation; not even Ed Wort's apfelwein with the montrachet. I've always thought they smelled of fruit, honey & wholesome yeasty goodness & I often put my nose right up to the airlock to get a good whiff of the stuff. I always use nutrient, energizer & a little xtra DAP in all my fermentations, maybe that has something to do with it. Regards, GF.

 

[solidghost]

What's DAP?

 

[Yooper]

I think it's Di-Ammonium Phosphate- a yeast nutrient. I don't use energizer very often, but I do use yeast nutrients in almost all of my wines. I don't really have a reason, except "can't hurt, might help".

 

[JWHooper]

I love the smell of fermenting wine. But then again, I like the taste of it too. I think you are supposed to let it age, but there's just something about the active yeast on your tongue as you steal a giant gulp of two day old wine ... booyah!

 

[arcsum68]

maybe its the fermenting wine/catbox combo thats sticking so badly

put my nose right up to the airlock and it doesnt stink too bad, but neither does the cat box

in any case, i just leave the fan on in the laundry/catbox/fermentation chamber

 

[gratus fermentatio]

maybe its the fermenting wine/catbox combo thats sticking so badly

put my nose right up to the airlock and it doesnt stink too bad, but neither does the cat box

in any case, i just leave the fan on in the laundry/catbox/fermentation chamber

If it's still stinking, try adding yeast nutrient, yeast energizer & maybe a little xtra DAP (diammonium phosphate) to your must; it works great for me. Regards, GF.