So I followed my directions, and finished up this evening, and my wine is clearing already, but there is a layer of sediment forming in the bottom. What is it, and should it be there?
what kind of wine is that
What part of the process of making wine did you finish up last evening?
Did you add the clarifiers (clearing agents)? If so, the sediment is the result of your wine clearing. All the cloudy stuff in the wine will drop to the bottom as yours is doing. Let it continue to drop sediment for the time given in your instructions, then rack it carefully to a clean carboy to avoid taking the sediment with it.
Don't worry about the time in the kit instructions at this stage. You can let it go longer. It will be better for bulk aging longer in the carboy The kit is all about "do it quick" because that's what people want nowadays - INSTANT! Time is usually your friend on the back side of fermentation in winemaking. So don't stress over it.
It is far more important to give your wine time to clear really well than it is to get it in a bottle prematurely and then watch it drop sediment in the bottle.
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