Am I doomed: Fruit Fly

[mschrock]

My first wine kit + fruit fly infestation.

I'm doing an Island Mist white cranberry pino gris, everything going great, got to step 3, added metabisuphites, sorbate, vigorously mixed, and 3 minutes later added fpack and isinglass, and a single freaking fruit fly. Am I doomed to vinegar? or will the sulphites and sorbate neutralize the bacteria from the fly?

 

[AlFulchino]

your fine...if worried... run it all thru a screen real quick and air lock it

dont you want protein?

by the way, when did they start adding that to their kits? was it in a package ?

 

[mschrock]

Clarification: the fruit fly was from MY overabundant never ending supply of death resistant zombie fruit fly "herd".

 

[Wade E]

Youll should be fine.

 

[Scott]

Grab him out of there and make him spit it out!

 

[MamaJ]

One evening I was drinking a glass of white wine - I don't remember what it was but nothing remarkable. From one sip to the next, I suddenly noticed a markedly different aroma, and the wine seemed to taste a little bit better. I looked into my glass and there was a fruit fly!
So maybe it will improve the wine?

 

[Tom]

A little protien never hurts ...LOL


UR fine.. He/She did die a nice death.. Bet it didnt feel a thing..

 

[grapeman]

In the summer and early fall I have the enjoyable pass time of watching fruit flies land in my glass of wine. I leave them alone for a few minutes until they look dead. I then take a pencil and fish them out. I tap it on the desk and they fall off and stagger around. In a minute or so they fly off in a crooked path as their wings dry out. Wonder if they ever get a ticket for flying while intoxicated!?

 

[smokegrub]

That was one contented fly! Don't fret, all is well.