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Default dead bug in the carboy - all taken care of

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your colorful, helpful, and downright funny input on this
one. Yeah, definitely had me a bit worried. But I figured the wine is
pretty much self-cleansing @ 14% alcohol.

Even though MLF is still underway, I'm going to rack this one carboy
(about 3/5 of a 5-gallon, topped up with CO2 from a tank) to a fresh
3-gallon carboy that I just bought today. At the same time, I'm going
to pitch in a little yeast nutrient and a fresh malo culture, as I ran
short the first time and have noticed MLF is going very slow.

I suppose MOG is nothing new. The bug was in there from the very start.
Who knows what else is in the wine, right? Just so long as it was
sulfited at the beginning, I suppose there's nothing to worry about.

Cheers,

David