Hi all,
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Newbie post, newbie question, newbie to the forum: boy and I feel dumb, I’m embarrassed even to admit what I did here but anyways here goes.
<H1 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt">I’ve been lurking for awhile but now have a problem/question??</H1>
It concerns my Gewurztraminer Wine Expert in primary, well now it’s in secondary. This is only my third attempt at winemaking but I’m already hooked.
Last night when I transferred to the secondary that’s when it happened. I’ve had the Gewurztraminer in primary for 7 days and the SG went to 1.006. I prepped everything and all was going well until…….As I’m watching the juice drain into the carboy to my amazement there floating on the top of the juice going round and round and round as was the itsy bitsy spider. About the size of a dime all stretched out.
At first I thought he had crawled into my primary sometime during the first 7 days because I only covered it loosely with a clean cloth. However, he showed up at the very beginning of the transfer in the bottom of the carboy and because he was still floating and not completely saturated I’m thinking he was in the carboy before I started. And yes, I did rinse out the carboy with K Meta before beginning. The carboy was clean already so I only gave it a swish with the K Meta and let it sit for several minutes then flushed with water. The solution is clear and I’m thinking he was killed by the K Meta but stuck to the side of the carboy and I didn’t get him flushed out before beginning the transfer.. At any rate I continued to fill the carboy to the top because I couldn’t get him out without him getting closer to the top of my jug. Then I sucked him out with a clean cooking baster. Now do I feel stupid?
My bottom line question is……..do I need to trash the entire batch or can I simply rename it……..Spider Wine????
EastCoast
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amespace prefix = o ns = "urnchemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />Newbie post, newbie question, newbie to the forum: boy and I feel dumb, I’m embarrassed even to admit what I did here but anyways here goes.
<H1 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt">I’ve been lurking for awhile but now have a problem/question??</H1>
It concerns my Gewurztraminer Wine Expert in primary, well now it’s in secondary. This is only my third attempt at winemaking but I’m already hooked.
Last night when I transferred to the secondary that’s when it happened. I’ve had the Gewurztraminer in primary for 7 days and the SG went to 1.006. I prepped everything and all was going well until…….As I’m watching the juice drain into the carboy to my amazement there floating on the top of the juice going round and round and round as was the itsy bitsy spider. About the size of a dime all stretched out.
At first I thought he had crawled into my primary sometime during the first 7 days because I only covered it loosely with a clean cloth. However, he showed up at the very beginning of the transfer in the bottom of the carboy and because he was still floating and not completely saturated I’m thinking he was in the carboy before I started. And yes, I did rinse out the carboy with K Meta before beginning. The carboy was clean already so I only gave it a swish with the K Meta and let it sit for several minutes then flushed with water. The solution is clear and I’m thinking he was killed by the K Meta but stuck to the side of the carboy and I didn’t get him flushed out before beginning the transfer.. At any rate I continued to fill the carboy to the top because I couldn’t get him out without him getting closer to the top of my jug. Then I sucked him out with a clean cooking baster. Now do I feel stupid?
My bottom line question is……..do I need to trash the entire batch or can I simply rename it……..Spider Wine????
EastCoast
