1st Worzels ready to rack! :-)

[leedsbrew]

Came back after a weekend away and found that my isinglas has done the business on my 1st wow!



Happy!!!!!!

[Geezah]

Nice!
I tend to rack mine 2-3 times and it comes clear on its own.... also helps me from drinking it to early
Make sure you degass it well otherwise it has a bit of an eggy smell to it.

[Newbiewineman]

what does racking it mean

[Geezah]

Siphoning it from the FV into another sanitised fv and leaving the yeast cake behind.
Do this 2-3 times over a 2-4 week period (normaly) clears the wine without the use of chemicals.
Once clear, degass by putting the wine in to a plastic dj and shaking hell out of it for 5 mins and letting out the gas every 20 mins for a 2 hr period.

[Frothy]

Siphoning it from the FV into another sanitised fv and leaving the yeast cake behind.
Do this 2-3 times over a 2-4 week period (normaly) clears the wine without the use of chemicals.
Once clear, degass by putting the wine in to a plastic dj and shaking hell out of it for 5 mins and letting out the gas every 20 mins for a 2 hr period.

True that
but be careful if you want to keep the wine long-term. By knocking out the sulphorous bad-gasses you will also be knocking in a massive amount of oxygen. In long term this will oxidise and destroy your flavours.

A de-gassing stick is available from some homebrew shops or maybe you could leave the wine open to "breathe" for a few hours.

Frothy

[Newbiewineman]

ah thank you for this and aproxmatly how long does this (im sorry to say this and meant as a lil bit of a joke) rather large elephant sized doctors speicmen take from adding the ingrediants to being ready to add finings/rack

[leedsbrew]

Managed to fit in a bit of racking and filtering between and AG brew today!





Filtering really makes it shine!

ah thank you for this and aproxmatly how long does this (im sorry to say this and meant as a lil bit of a joke) rather large elephant sized doctors speicmen take from adding the ingrediants to being ready to add finings/rack

This one was started on the 29-10-10. As of today (23-11-10) it is stabilised, fined, filtered, and ready to bottle. Other people may do things at a different time scale to this but I plan on now topping it up with treated boiled water and bottling it! It'll then probably spend a couple of month in the garage.

Time to get the next one on!

[Newbiewineman]

ah thanks for that so around 25 days and why you toppping it with boiled water is there an essencial reason for this or are you just making it last a lil bit longer

[leedsbrew]

It should have been topped up when the fermentation died down a bit (I left some head room incase it went mental during fermentation) but I forgot. It's just a bit too strong for a table wine! Nice but I wanted something that was a bit easier to drink!