Walmart Juice Fermenting?

[teddyearp]

Howdy, long time. There's a lot of folk here who know way more than I so I don't post enough of late to save bandwidth.

I've had a condition the last couple weeks where I find my Walmart juice has started fermenting after a week of storage. Never happened before, yes room temps. I use the 96 oz. bottles and juggle it into three gallons a week, so I'll let you imagine from there. There's always an opened partial bottle from one week to the next, but never have I had them start fermenting over the last couple years. Last two weeks they have. I added a touch of sugar today while doing my bottle/brew day to the one from last week and good thing it was in my sink. Yeah, it's active.

Any other reports like this? I'm gonna let it finish and call it some other special cider, lol.

I'm a turbo brewer. EC-1118 for two weeks bottle it up, let it age a week, cold crash, drink. Rotate and rinse and repeat.

 

[fluketamer]

some juices always ferment once i open them. (welches is classic for this -a few days after opening it starts to turn if not kept cold. )

possibly the airborn yeast cell count in your local environment is higher than it previously was or possibly they changed the amount of ascorbic acid in the juice ( preservative).

 

[teddyearp]

some juices always ferment once i open them. (welches is classic for this -a few days after opening it starts to turn if not kept cold. )

possibly the airborn yeast cell count in your local environment is higher than it previously was or possibly they changed the amount of ascorbic acid in the juice ( preservative).

Thanks. That seems to make sense. It's obviously wild yeast and you sound familiar with the ingredients.

For the readers, I'm using the Walmart Great Value brand, pastuerized juice from concentrate with ascorbic acid added. It's imported from China and sometimes Chile.

So now. Have you ever let one finish and how did it come out?

Gggg.