Hi everyone,
I have a fairly urgent question. I have a small (5L) batch of Peach and Nectarine Melomel. It is my first melomel apart from JAO. I am really happy with the flavour. I added 1 Campden tablet and 1/2 teaspoon sorbate - after racking and let sit for 2 weeks. I did this because I recently made a batch of skeeter pee and it said to wait 2 weeks after stabilising and degassing to allow the wine to clear before racking and backsweetening (I am new to trying the whole backsweetening thing). I then did a final racking and backsweetened to 1.012 which I thought tasted good. It has been sitting 2 days now and I was planning on bottling soon - but now there is some slow but consistent airlock activity. It had been sitting in secondary for quite some time so I don't think it is degassing and there are no visible bubbles present at this stage.
What should I do? Add more Kmeta only? Add more sorbate? (Did I not add enough??)
I don't want to ruin it at this stage so a bit unsure on best course of action.
Thanks for your help.
I have a fairly urgent question. I have a small (5L) batch of Peach and Nectarine Melomel. It is my first melomel apart from JAO. I am really happy with the flavour. I added 1 Campden tablet and 1/2 teaspoon sorbate - after racking and let sit for 2 weeks. I did this because I recently made a batch of skeeter pee and it said to wait 2 weeks after stabilising and degassing to allow the wine to clear before racking and backsweetening (I am new to trying the whole backsweetening thing). I then did a final racking and backsweetened to 1.012 which I thought tasted good. It has been sitting 2 days now and I was planning on bottling soon - but now there is some slow but consistent airlock activity. It had been sitting in secondary for quite some time so I don't think it is degassing and there are no visible bubbles present at this stage.
What should I do? Add more Kmeta only? Add more sorbate? (Did I not add enough??)
I don't want to ruin it at this stage so a bit unsure on best course of action.
Thanks for your help.