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Added Spark about 3 weeks ago and then remembered that I forgot to degas. A lot of the sediment had dropped, and I'm really not sure why I didn't rack other than pure laziness before I degassed. I figured since it cleared once, mixing it again wouldn't hurt anything and it would simply clear...

Uh oh.... So I have a food saver. Thought I'd give it a shot. Somehow I'm pulling what looks to be "solid sparkaloid" off the bottom and to the top of the carboy. Getting a few bubbles, but I'm a bit concerned of how much "junk" I'm making float. I racked off the lees once already because...

Maybe I shouldnt piggy back on this post, but I too am on my first batch of pee. I notice hundreds of post about degassing, but am having trouble finding a timeline. Im in carboyafter 1 week of primary fermenting and started at 1.01 now down to .996 or so. Been there for 4 days and airlock is...

Hello again all- thanks for your help so far. Rhubarb wine was racked into secondary and air locked 5 days ago. Since then, there is about 1 ½- 2" of lees/sediment in the bottom. I haven't taken the airlock off to check sg, but I was wondering if you can rack too much and if only 5 days is...

I think I took a reading too quickly and without an aggressive stir. Last evening, 20 hours after I added water, SG was down to 1.005. I really wanted to rack into secondary, bit I would call this aggressive fermentation yet. I put an airlock on primary just for fun and damn near blew my water...

Thank you very much. I did Add 1 gal water and sg didn't drop but .002. Still fermenting but down to 1.03 already in 24hrs. Start to smell like something OK....ha!

Started with 16# rhubarb and 4 strawberry. 5# sugar and water to get to about 3.5 gal on primary. SG 1.10 so a little high. Now km finding recipes that suggest this should be 5 gal which makes sense with the high SG. Took 90 hrs to begin fermentation. I was ready to throw and start over and...