Well,,,,,,,,,I had started the South Africa Shiraz January 15th. Being very careful to follow instructions and take my time.
Beingin and out of town on business the last two weeks, my brain must have been in a fog!
Iwent from the primary fermentation tothe second stage, of racking to the carboy on January 21st. Instructions tell me to wait(10) days and check the S.G on two consecutive days. If the same S.G. go onto the third stage of adding the additional ingredients (package #2, #3, #4, metabisulphite, sorbate, chitosan).
I checked the S.G. these two days (25-26). The S.G was and is .980 for these two days. Seemed terribly low!???
Now that I'm finished with adding all ingredients, actually looking at my records I might have messed up.
Room stays at 62 degrees.
The starting date was January 15th with a S.G of 1.089, temp 65. ( instruction say it should be 1.092-1.098) (heat belt/wrap was on the bucket)
Stage two racking into carboy January 21st S.G. 1.004 temp 70. (kept the heating belt on the carboy until husband unplugged it January 24th making the statement the action in the carboy had diminished)
Stage three January 25th S.G. .098 temp 62, January 26th S.G. .098 Temp 62.
Does this seem right to you? Actually it should have gone until January 31st.
Does anyone for-see any problems?
Just plain tired!
Beingin and out of town on business the last two weeks, my brain must have been in a fog!
Iwent from the primary fermentation tothe second stage, of racking to the carboy on January 21st. Instructions tell me to wait(10) days and check the S.G on two consecutive days. If the same S.G. go onto the third stage of adding the additional ingredients (package #2, #3, #4, metabisulphite, sorbate, chitosan).
I checked the S.G. these two days (25-26). The S.G was and is .980 for these two days. Seemed terribly low!???
Now that I'm finished with adding all ingredients, actually looking at my records I might have messed up.
Room stays at 62 degrees.
The starting date was January 15th with a S.G of 1.089, temp 65. ( instruction say it should be 1.092-1.098) (heat belt/wrap was on the bucket)
Stage two racking into carboy January 21st S.G. 1.004 temp 70. (kept the heating belt on the carboy until husband unplugged it January 24th making the statement the action in the carboy had diminished)
Stage three January 25th S.G. .098 temp 62, January 26th S.G. .098 Temp 62.
Does this seem right to you? Actually it should have gone until January 31st.
Does anyone for-see any problems?
Just plain tired!
