Hello. If anyone can give me any advise I would appriciate it a lot.
I started making a "3 week" 6 bottle Chardonnay wine kit and my friend's son started making his after me and he has already made and drunk his. My friend has been brewing with her husband for years and I asked her a lot of questions but my wine still isn't ready and i started it in October I think.. I left the demijohn in a cupboard, The temperature was the most steady there. For a while, I thought it wasn't doing anything but then it really started bubbling for a long time. It cleared nicely and looks as it should, I bought a hydrometer and it was just above the bottling line. Eventually, There was no activity in the airlock, so with the hydrometer reading, I racked it off.
I tasted it and it tastes really nice as it should.. But the corks popped overnight so I syphoned it back into the demijohn. There was a few gurgles from the airlock, I cannot believe this is not done. Now I'm worried that syphoning it away from the muck at the bottom has taken away something it needs to finish.
Am I going crazy? Can the process go backwards somehow or am I just being a novice? I'm so disapointed because I wanted to make wine for Christmas and now this has put me behind because this was my practice run and I think Ive messed it up somehow. I've just bought a barrel and started a 30 bottle wine kit, I really really want to make this work. Is it obvious what I'm doing wrong?
I started making a "3 week" 6 bottle Chardonnay wine kit and my friend's son started making his after me and he has already made and drunk his. My friend has been brewing with her husband for years and I asked her a lot of questions but my wine still isn't ready and i started it in October I think.. I left the demijohn in a cupboard, The temperature was the most steady there. For a while, I thought it wasn't doing anything but then it really started bubbling for a long time. It cleared nicely and looks as it should, I bought a hydrometer and it was just above the bottling line. Eventually, There was no activity in the airlock, so with the hydrometer reading, I racked it off.
I tasted it and it tastes really nice as it should.. But the corks popped overnight so I syphoned it back into the demijohn. There was a few gurgles from the airlock, I cannot believe this is not done. Now I'm worried that syphoning it away from the muck at the bottom has taken away something it needs to finish.
Am I going crazy? Can the process go backwards somehow or am I just being a novice? I'm so disapointed because I wanted to make wine for Christmas and now this has put me behind because this was my practice run and I think Ive messed it up somehow. I've just bought a barrel and started a 30 bottle wine kit, I really really want to make this work. Is it obvious what I'm doing wrong?