Hi,
following my first gallon batch of kit "white wine" (I guess if that is the description I get what I deserve) that ended up with frog spawn in the bottles and a taste not dissimilar to pond-water, I started a 5 gallon Reisling kit.
Things started badly with the kit as per instructions giving an initial SG of 1.067, potential alcohol about 9%. Anyway, I carried on with the instructions, racked it from a 5 gallon (imperial) plastic fermenting bucket into five demijohns, each of one gallon to clear.
Looked nice and clear to my beginner's eyes tonight so I syphoned it back into the plastic bucket for sweetening and adding a "flavour" sachet.
While syphoning it I noticed that stuff seemed to be accumulating in the wine near the edge of the demijohn. It was kind of clear and looked like thin jelly dribbling from the top of the wine. As the amount of wine in the demijohn got lower, the amount of stuff got more. It was almost like when you see cooking oil floating on water.
Anybody got any idea what this might be?
After sweetening and flavouring I have put it back into the demijohns, filling four and leaving a litre and a half that I am currently drinking. It tastes kind of like watered down fruit juice. Not unpleasant but not at all like wine. I am only half way through the first glass so not sure what the alcohol content is like.