2007-08-21 05:48:55 · 9 answers · asked by ♥hunnyswifey♥ 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
We opened it last night at my parents house...we all drank it...will we get sick now??? it tasted okay but had bubbles in it....and it wasn't champagne! It was cloudy too and we all noticed that..ugghh i hope i don't get sick!
2007-08-21 06:10:23 · update #1
It may be cloudy if the bottle was not stored on it's side and left unturned until you just opened it. But the cloudyness doesn't mean it went bad, just turn it around and the sediments will go back into the wine. As for the bubbles.... that I can't answer, but I've seen it and drank it before, never had a problem.
2007-08-21 05:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How long ago did you open it? Wine will often get "murky" when it spoils. If you opened it a while ago, this could be the case. Just throw it away or use it for cooking.
If you just opened the wine:
Could be that it has spoiled already even though it wasn't opened. If the cork is compromised air can get in and spoil the wine.
On the other hand, some bottles of wine are cloudy if the wine came from the bottom on the barrel and/or it has sediments in it.
Take it back to where you bought it, usually the merchant will exchange it.
2007-08-21 06:08:42 · answer #2 · answered by Chocoholic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's got some yeast action going on.
Wine is made by adding yeast to grape juice. The yeast eats the sugar in the grape juice, the by product is alcohol. During the fermentation process the grape juice is bubbly and cloudy.
Champagne is made by adding a little yeast to the wine just before it's bottled. The yeast converts the last bits of sugar to alcohol and adds the bubbles because there is no place for the gas to escape inside the sealed bottle.
There are natural yeasts in the air. Beer uses the same process as wine, it just starts with a different sugar source. Belgium beers called Lambicks are fermented using a yeast that occurs naturally in Belgium - they ferment the beer in open vats - unlike the stainless steel tanks you see at a Budwieser brewery.
2007-08-21 06:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cloudy could be sediment that wasn't filtered out. (Sediment could form even if it's on its side, by the way. It would get "stirred up" when you tilt the bottle, or maybe while it bounced around during transport. Should have settled out in a relatively short time though.) Or it could be cork particulate, I guess--if the bottle was upright for a long time and it started to dry out. Or it could be yeast that wasn't filtered out too.
Bubbles are a sign of 2ndary fermentation. That's how home brewers get bubbles in their beer bottles. The yeast "eats" sugars in the bottle, and create bubbles. So I guess there could have been live yeast left in the bottle.
I'm guessing it was yeast--especially if this was a non-commercialI wine. I wouldn't call the wine BAD, necessarily. But I'd take a little sip before gulping it down.
2007-08-21 05:58:18 · answer #4 · answered by Left Bank Hook 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That means the yeast is not finished working and the wine was bottled too early.
2007-08-21 06:03:20 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it's gone bad.
2007-08-21 05:53:23 · answer #6 · answered by justme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea the bubbles is not a good sign. . . .I think it has gone bad.
2007-08-21 05:56:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it might have been bottled too fast not eneough time to set
2007-08-21 08:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hhhhhmmmm you posted 4 days ago.........everything ok?????
2007-08-25 05:27:38 · answer #9 · answered by SKY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋