Possible wine infection?

[cseifert151]

I made a watermelon wine using pure juice with some added sugar to bump to 10% alcohol. I started Saturday and by this afternoon (Monday) it was done. I used a Red Star Pasteur Champagne yeast. When I transferred to the carboy, the was a white goop at the bottom that was kind of sticky and a little sour to the taste. Is that the yeast or does it sound like infection? Thanks!

 

[Yooper]

I made a watermelon wine using pure juice with some added sugar to bump to 10% alcohol. I started Saturday and by this afternoon (Monday) it was done. I used a Red Star Pasteur Champagne yeast. When I transferred to the carboy, the was a white goop at the bottom that was kind of sticky and a little sour to the taste. Is that the yeast or does it sound like infection? Thanks!

It sounds like pectin and yeast gooped together. Usually infections will be a skim or weird bubbles at the top of the wine.

 

[cseifert151]

Ahh! Thank you! That's definitely a relief.

 

[DoctorCAD]

...white goop at the bottom that was kind of sticky and a little sour to the taste...

Yewww, I don't think I would have tasted it.