The two Paul's in this thread would make good Republican Presidential
candidates. Instilling IRRATIONAL FEAR into anyone who ever came
across mold or a bad smelling wine. On the contrary, there are no
known pathogens that exist in wine. It's the reason the Board of
Health exempts wineries from reqiurements of section 20C. Has anyone
on this board heard of anyone getting sick from bad wine? Anyone?
Frederick mentioned the push down of the cap. Both Pauls have pushed
those "toxins" down into the wine hundreds of times and didn't even
know it. Those toxins are always there. Even SO2 doesn't kill them.
SO2 puts them in suspended animation until the SO2 levels drop. Bleach
would kill them but then there really would be "toxins" in the wine.
How many "toxins" have people drunk in this world when the SO2 levels
of the wine they are drinking become low?? Just because you can't see
them doesn't mean they are not there and it's ironic that the cap
keeps getting pushed into the fermenting must to kill them. Maybe the
fermentation does do something. Imagine that.

Bob


On Oct 25, 8:57 pm, Paul Arthur > wrote:
> On 2007-10-25, Cathy Boer > wrote:
>
> > After reading the comments about mold in primary fermentation stage; we
> > started 4 gallons of apple cider but the temp was bad and we had green mold
> > on top of the cider (just apple juice let to ferment by itself, no yeast or
> > other additives).
>
> > We ended up throwing it down the drain, but could we have saved the juice by
> > adding yeast???
>
> > Any comments/help would be appreciated. We're new at all this stuff!
>
> It depends on how advanced the mold is. If you catch it fairly
> quickly and it's only on top, you can rack the must out from under the
> mold (leaving behind a couple of inches to make sure you don't carry
> the mold into the new fermenter) and pitch yeast. If it's been growing
> for a while toss it, as the mold produces toxins that will have spread
> throughout the must and cannot be easily removed.
>
> --
> I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!!