Maybe stupid question

[dralarms]

I’ve got 8 bottles of apple wine from 2014, it has turned to vinegar. I know I don’t want that crap in my wine making area but do I dump the contents, clean the bottles and continue or do I toss the 8 bottles in the trash?

2 things to consider,

1 I’m bottle poor right now (got 22 cases I haven’t even started cleaning yet)

2 these bottles were donated by a friend and they are Trader Joe’s bottles (little shorted, fatter, and thinner that normal bottles).

 

[Boatboy24]

For only 8 bottles, I wouldn't re-use them.

 

[crushday]

got 22 cases I haven’t even started cleaning yet

Maybe it’s me, but isn’t that your problem? Depending on your consumption rate, it would take nearly 9 months to amass that many empty bottles drinking one bottle a day. Depending on how you store your dirties, you’re giving ample opportunity for bugs to grow.

 

[dralarms]

Maybe it’s me, but isn’t that your problem? Depending on your consumption rate, it would take nearly 9 months to amass that many empty bottles drinking one bottle a day. Depending on how you store your dirties, you’re giving ample opportunity for bugs to grow.

Lol. I bought them used. And they are stored off site until I need them. All my bottles are scrubbed, cleaned with one step, and hit with kmeta. If I find anything that has mold or anything else growing in the bottle it just gets tossed.

 

[dralarms]

Problem solved, tossed them in the dumpster. I figured free bottles, no sense in taking that chance.

 

[BernardSmith]

I would think the bigger question is how /why the apple wine turned to vinegar.

 

[dralarms]

I would think the bigger question is how /why the apple wine turned to vinegar.

cant answer that, maybe not vinegar, but definitely bad. I assumed that there was something left (not clear enough) that allowed it to develop. Out of a 750ml bottle about 1/3 was gelatin like.

 

[BernardSmith]

cant answer that, maybe not vinegar, but definitely bad. I assumed that there was something left (not clear enough) that allowed it to develop. Out of a 750ml bottle about 1/3 was gelatin like.

THAT sounds like the mother.

 

[dralarms]

THAT sounds like the mother.

That’s what worried me. It was a time when I was bottling way too soon and I guess something survived the fermentation process