peach wine

[bg7mm]

first go at a peach wine, fermentation slow for the first 7 days, really slow, unlike any other wine I have made but I let it go, moved into secondary tonight and still a slow fermentation. but still going, still some sweetness to the batch, any ideas? I guess i'll just let it do it's thing

we have a strawberry/raspberry ready for filtering and bottling that's quite nice, a black berry and muscadine also in same stages.

i'm going to throw a watermelon and another blackberry from same batch of juices I purchased from that one company tomorrow in primaries, home winery supplies. I have 60 pounds of blackberry also in the freezers from our Kiowa plants, extremely hugh berries .

 

[salcoco]

did you use yeast nutrient?

 

[bg7mm]

no, recipe didn't call for it but after I racked into secondary the thing went crazy, bubbling now like theirs no tomorrow, oxygen maybe? primary was sealed with an airlock, seems like once I racked adding oxygen it went off . looking good now

 

[Turock]

ALWAYS use nutrient. Lack of nutrient stresses the yeast--you're lucky you didn't get H2S production! Split you're nutrient dose and pitch it at the beginning and then again before the 50% dry mark and you won't have sluggish ferments due to the yeast being stressed.

Always stir the ferment daily to get oxygen into it.

 

[bg7mm]

thanks, i'll try it on the batch of watermelon I just started, looks like it's doing the same as the peach did