ryankelley
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It seems like my batches always slow down and struggle to finish after I rack them to a secondary. Reading Jack Keller's website, he mentions: Transfer does not mean rack. While the solids are strained off and discarded, the liquid and lees are poured through a funnel into the secondary. The lees are important at this stage because many of the live yeast cells will have settled into the lees. Without them, fermentation will get very sluggish or stick (stop altogether). The best procedure is to stir the wine to get the lees into suspension, then pour the liquid through a large funnel into the secondary.
Huh? I thought the whole idea was to move the wine off the "gross" lees that accumulated in the bottom. Am I supposed to transfer the lees over with the wine? There are no solids with Skeeter Pee, so racking it always seems to be all about getting it off the lees.
Huh? I thought the whole idea was to move the wine off the "gross" lees that accumulated in the bottom. Am I supposed to transfer the lees over with the wine? There are no solids with Skeeter Pee, so racking it always seems to be all about getting it off the lees.
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