My really strange ferment(Cinnamon toast crunch cereal...stop laughing, I love experimenting) is starting to get a slight vinegar smell. If I try real hard, I can make that slight vinegar smell be a dry wine smell in my head. I read somewhere on internet that adding a campden tablet would rid the acedic acid of vinegar. I started at 1.085 on Jan. 1st, now it is 1.016. The air lock was hiccupping every 5 seconds. I just took lid off and stirred the hell out of it. (Don't ask me why...I don't know)..Heard a lot of fizz. Put lid back on.........now 15 minutes later......no bubbling. To start I had mixed 5 pounds sugar with 2½ gallons of water. 12.8 ounce box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, let air out one day with cloth over top of fermenter bucket, then added yeast(from refrigerator storage)
WHY did the bubbling stop? Was it gas stuck under the trubs as Barney Fife warned me about on my other cereal wash?
Should I rack it and freeze it & rack again OR throw it to the hogs?
slight vinegar smell
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