First Wines Away

[gitface]

Hi All

Well I've started my frist wines this evening, one wine no 1 and a fruity tea bag wine.

The wine no 1 was made from 3.5 litres of asda exotic fruit juice (grape, orange, pineapple, apple and passion fruit, with a bit of mango puree) and 0.5 litre of lemon and lime. This was made up to 2 gallon and sugar added to sg 1.080 - which was about 1.8 kg of sugar.

The fruity tea bag is a bit of an experiment and am only making 2 litres of this (re-purposing a coke bottle) So scaled the ingredient as appropriate from Duffbeer's receipt. One thing I noticed is that there seemed to be a lot of sediment form from the get go and when I just checked to see how much before writing, I've noticed it has started to bubble away.

I guessing the sediment is from the tea bags and that is the reason for the pectolase.

Mark............

[lockwood1956]

Most excellent!!!!


welcome to airlock watchers anonymous

[lockwood1956]

bloop

[lockwood1956]

bloop.

[lockwood1956]

bloop..

[Cellar_Rat]

bloop

[SiSandrine]

Bloop.


This could go on some time.

Though it will slow down after a while.

[gitface]

Oh dear, you made me lol with the bloops.

Well the Wine No 1 started late last night and gave me a bit of a jump and drenched the top of the bucket. Instead of a slow bloop its more like a flatulent frog. I think that it's building up then letting out several bloops at once.

Is this normal when fermenting in a bucket?

Mark............

[goldseal]

Yep, the lid of the bucket acts as a diaphgram, rising and falling a little.

Perfectly normal.

[lockwood1956]

Though it will slow down after a while.

lol

[Cellar_Rat]

bloop

[Cellar_Rat]

normally slows down after a week or so..

[gitface]

Just an update.

Racked it out to a clean bottle and topped up to neck. SG was 1.010 and added some suger to bring it back to 1.046. Will let it ferment out now and back sweeten to about 1.005 ish. Took a quick taste and must say it is a nice pleasant drink much more subtle than the tea. Looking forward to when it's done.

Mark..........

[gitface]

Just checked the wine no 1' SG and it's at 0.990 and still bubbling away which is at an estimate of 12.2% alcohol. Just have to wait for it to stop bubbling.

Mark.............

[gitface]

Checked the wine on Tuesday and the SG was 0.986 and then again today (Friday) and it hadn't changed so set about degassing by placing half into one of my bins, putting the lid on and shaking like mad, lifting the lid to release the pressure. Rinse and repeated until there was no more "psst" from the lid been opened.

I'm guessing that it went so low as I must not have mixed all the sugar in giving me a false reading at the beginning, does this sound likely?

So the question now is to and finings or not? I have noticed that it has seemed to be clearing a little and guess that now I've de-gassed it more will fall out.

Mark............