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by katposs
11:45 Wed 08 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

not positive, as the ubrew doesn all of that; we just basically bottle.........will have to bring it back i guess..
by katposs
23:40 Tue 07 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

good point about whether it would be mold or not, as it is in all the bottles, and i could see POSSIBLY not sanitizing one bottle, but not all of them; we are pretty meticulous.
by katposs
23:36 Tue 07 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

ok, pretty disgusting! BUT, how did this mold start out? swirling little cloud of reddish brown particles that settled eventually? or were they just white lumps of mold?
by katposs
20:21 Mon 06 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

THANKS FOR THE WARNING! HAHA! that does seem to make sense.
by katposs
18:05 Mon 06 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

and i meant we added a 750 ml (not ltr) bottle of brandly to the port.
by katposs
17:38 Mon 06 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

the total # of bottles came to roughly 16 750 ml (not ltr, ml....oops on my last post). i w/contact them and ask what kind of yeast they used on it. anything else specifically i should ask? thanks, by the way.
by katposs
16:43 Mon 06 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

we added a whole 750 ltr. of brandy.....w/scare up some cheesecloth and run her thru....
by katposs
00:04 Mon 06 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

Re: please help! white port fuzz!

a 'ubrew' is a store where you check out a list of wines/beers/port, etc. and pay x amount of $$ for your choice....you put the yeast in the bottle, then in 6-8 weeks, it is ready to bottle (in the meantime, the store has done all that is required to it prior to bottlin) you are responsible for brin...
by katposs
15:44 Fri 03 Aug 2012
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: please help! white port fuzz!
Replies: 20
Views: 7894

please help! white port fuzz!

my friends and i have bottled (at the local ubrew) some port. it's a white choc port, to which we did add a bottle of brandy just before we bottled. this was in jan. 2012. i pulled out a bottle and it has all these floaties in it. it eventually settles to the bottom; a brownish red, algae looking st...