’04 Red Muscadine batch 2

30 pounds of '04 muscadines, 5-11-05

racked to glass, 5-16-05, added oak cubes

10-26-05, before coarse filtering with Mini-Jet #1 pads...





Edited by: Hippie

10-26-05, after coarse filtering with #1 Mini-Jet pads...





Edited by: Hippie

Looking good guy!

Wow Hippy sure looks tasty, I need a mini jet filter ,I am haveing trouble cleaning my Peach wine i started in 6/15/05.I tried the unflavored Gelatine and made it more cloudy,I am thinking about useing Bentinite,unless you have any other suggestions.Defalco's (wine and beer making supplier) rents filters for $6.00 a day but it stays rented pretty much all the time.


Harry

Great job on some real Hippie wine!

Looks great !! When will you bottle it Hippie

CW - I've noticed with both the scuppernongs you showed several weeks
ago and with these muscadines that the grapes appear to be whole rather
than crushed (could be my eyes.) Can you explain your procedure for
grape prep prior to pitching yeast? Also, do you have a local source for
the fruit? Thanks.
Bill

Harry said:

Wow Hippy sure looks tasty, I need a mini jet filter ,I am haveing trouble cleaning my Peach wine i started in 6/15/05.I tried the unflavored Gelatine and made it more cloudy,I am thinking about useing Bentinite,unless you have any other suggestions.Defalco's (wine and beer making supplier) rents filters for $6.00 a day but it stays rented pretty much all the time.


Harry

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Harry, I would try the SuperKleer http://www.finevinewines.com/ProdDetA.asp?PartNumber=6383





Within 24 hours, it's clear.





Many people would tell you to wait it out as well. But I had good experience with the superKleer.





Just my 2 cents!





Martina

Harry, I agree the peach will outwait you. Stone fruit wines are notoriously stubborn. I had a peach wine that would not drop any more sediment at all, but was still cloudy and had bulk aged forever. The #1 Mini-Jet pads took out the haze. If you used plenty of pectic enzyme in the must, I would try sparkaloid or superkleer.


Waldo, I hope to bottle before the new year.


Bilbo, I crush them a handful at a time in a big ziplock baggy and put into a large fine-mesh straining bag.


Edited by: Hippie

Thanks Glenvall i will do