sparkling wine ???

[Bobwhite]

I have a banana pinaple wine that's been fermented dry stabilized and topped with a pinaple juice for back sweetening and now 4 months later I want to bottle it but its got c02 like crazy but its clear and has no lees in the bottom of the csrboy

It doesn't move a air lock at all but wen I tried to rack to bottles its like a sparkling wine so I stopped and degasses and it just never quits putting out c02 when I agitate it

It tastes great and idk if I can or should try to stabilize it or what to do

I have enough grolsch bottles to bottle the whole carboy do u think this is safe or a bottle bomb ?? It doesn't let gas out at all until its shaked or desturbed I'm thinking about grolsch bottling it and keeping them in a tote with a lid in the basement just in case and just consume it quickly

 

[Julie]

you don't need to stabilize again, once is enough. Try splash racking a couple of times.

 

[Bobwhite]

I've try that with no success lol u think it would b safe in the grolsch bottles ?

 

[Bobwhite]

Anyone else have any input?

 

[BernardSmith]

Can you pull the gas by creating a vacuum? It may need about 20 - 22 inches of vacuum but a vacuum will pull the CO2 from the liquid. I think - but am not certain - that if you do not have easy access to a vacuum pump, a "bottle saver" device that removes O2 from an opened bottle of wine may be able to create sufficient vacuum to pull the CO2 from the wine - although that may take several days of effort. Alternatively, your local home brew store may sell plastic whips that you can attach to a small hand drill and if you whip the wine gently you can remove the CO2 from carboy

 

[DoctorCAD]

How did you "stabilize"?

 

[Bobwhite]

I've used a whip with no sucsess

I used campden tablets 1 per gallon

And potassium sorbate per instructions on the bottle

 

[DoctorCAD]

That should do it, degassing is one of the necessary evils when rushing to bottle. Sitting for 6 months would help.

 

[Bobwhite]

Yea all my others r gonna sit till pears r ripe in September but my Gf graduates this weekend and I was wanting to have this to celebrate with cause bananas and pinaples r so cheep I don't mind drinking it young and letting my good stuff age longer

Do u think a swing top bottle would b safe and just tell the family its a sparkling wine ? Lol

And just consume it ? Its in the only plastic carboy I have and I don't want it in there any longer then necessary I'm going to through the thing away when I get this batch out of it I hate that thing glass is the only way to go foe me for now on out

 

[sour_grapes]

I believe that the Grolsch-type bottles would work fine for your intended purpose.

Bobwhite, would you mind spelling out the words that you are using, rather than use those abbreviations?

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[Bobwhite]

I no its not the right thing to do but it tastes good and I am taking my time to let my others age properly and was wanting something different for this weekend then the wines I already have bottled

 

[Bobwhite]

OK thanks I will be sure to try and type out everything properly, I am using my phone and just get so used to shortcutting my typing due to being on such a small keyboard and not on a computer.

Sorry for all the abbreviation's

 

[JohnT]

Hey Bob, did you have your wine chilled when you degassed? Try warming the wine up to, say. 75f degrees and degass again.

 

[Bobwhite]

OK thanks I may try that its in the basement so its probably 60 degree or so