Recent content by jcaudill

Thanks for the detailed reply! At least with my ported Better Bottle have a pickup tube so hopefully I'm only pulling the clear stuff above the settled stuff. I went ahead and drilled my non-ported Better Bottle yesterday and stuck a racking assembly in it. I think this is going to solve...

If you do leave the wine in the primary until the fermentation is complete with transferring to secondary, do you add the Pectinase to the primary as well?

Hello, This is my first time making wine (although I have quite a bit of experience making beer). Reading through the RJS instructions, they have you transferring at around 5 brix to a secondary carboy, and then about 6 days later for clearing and conditioning to another tertiary carboy. I've...

Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply! Winemaking is definitely a different animal than brewing beer. I'll use mineral water to be safe, and rack it off. Fortunately transferring to another vessel is pretty easy via the spout on the Speidel!

Hello, I'm new to the winemaking world but I've been making beer for years so that is the world I'm familiar with. I've picked up an RJ kit (23 liter yield) for my first attempt, and I have a 60 liter Speidel plastic fermenter. Looking through the instructions there is talk about...