I've made Skeeter Pee before.
Didn't really enjoy it.
I've made regular Dragon Blood before and always enjoy it.
This time I decided to make one batch of Regular Dragon Blood with Raspberries, Blueberries and Blackberries and it turned out clear.
And made a batch at the same time of a...
I made 2 x 5 gallon batches of Dragon Blood.
Fermented it dry. (Well currently it sits at 1.002 for a month)
Racked it from bucket to carboy to carboy to carboy and degassed everytime.
Also added metabisulfate and sorbate.
I chose not to backsweeten.
I have been filing bottles from the...
Disregard the whole not clearing thing I guess.
lol
Maybe it was the tripling of the berries.
Maybe it was the weird angle of sunlight.
Maybe it was the thickness of the carboy.
I don't know but I pulled a bottle and it was crystal clear in the bottle.
Added 2 tablespoons of sugar as...
As stated above I racked these two batches on Jan 28 and added everything I stated above.
Never really cleared too much.
A lot of lees fell to the bottom over the next week or so.
On Monday although not clear I racked to fresh carboys (leaving the lees behind obviously) to see if it would...
What is peoples average clearing time when not filtering?
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I racked these two batches to the carboys on Jan 28 when they hit 1.000
Added 1/2 tsp Potassium Metabisulfate to each and mixed/degassed well...
Well I racked my 45ish litres from buckets to carboys.
My carboys are only 5 gallon.
Therefore I had about 4 litres plus I just couldn't waste so begrudgingly am drinking them.
2/3 Dragon Blood, some Ginger ale and a splash of Orange Juice and the wife and I are feeling no pain tonight.
Just curious if there can be any negative effects doing what I did.
Had it fermenting for at around 71 degrees for about 11 days.
When the batch hit just under 1.010 I put a heater close by for about 12 hours to finish it off quicker (didn't mean to get the batch up to 110 degrees but I...
Wowzers! Great Project.
I probably should have built a wine room instead of the 600 square foot deck we just had built since I live in snow country and only get to use the deck half the year. :)
I'm planning to build this EXACT setup in my "wine room" which is really just the far end of...
I'm about to start my first batch(es) of Dragon Blood.
I have 2 five gallon carboys so will adjust the recipe accordingly (doesn't look like I have to adjust much0.
I'm confused by the one step though.
Carefully rack off one gallon of wine into a cleaned and sanitized container, and set...
Day 28
On day 23 both carboys were still quite cloudy so I poured in a pack of kieselsol and a pack of chitosan into each carboy and mixed well.
Within a day or two one carboy became very very clear except for some lees collecting on the sidewalls and a good half inch of lees on the...
Day 18/~420 hours.
Racked back to clean carboys.
Added 1/2 tsp Kmeta and 2 1/2 tsp sorbate to each 5 gallon batch.
Degassed with one of them thingies on a drill for a solid 10 minutes forward/reverse.
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Day 20/~475 hours.
Very cloudy still...