Hi All,
New to making my own wine and started out with a Winexpert Sauvignon Blanc and a batch of Dragon's blood just for good measure.
The Kit progressed well along the timeline prescribed by the directions, except my secondary fermentation was about 4 days slower than indicated, possibly because the temp was only at 72F. That said, I did wait until the SG dropped to .996 before clarifying, degassing and stabilizing. I used a drill-mounted whip to degas and got a bit of a foam-over but once I cleaned that up I continued degassing per the instructions. After a couple of days I noticed there was a noticeable clear layer forming on top of the slightly less clear wine below, about two inches below the surface. A coupe days later the cleared layer seemed to have disappeared instead of lowering deeper into the carboy. It's been a week now and the wine is clearer than it was when I added the agents, but there is no stark gradient between a clear and unclear layer as some have described. Is something wrong?
Thanks, looking forward to learning a lot from you all!
-Ryan
New to making my own wine and started out with a Winexpert Sauvignon Blanc and a batch of Dragon's blood just for good measure.
The Kit progressed well along the timeline prescribed by the directions, except my secondary fermentation was about 4 days slower than indicated, possibly because the temp was only at 72F. That said, I did wait until the SG dropped to .996 before clarifying, degassing and stabilizing. I used a drill-mounted whip to degas and got a bit of a foam-over but once I cleaned that up I continued degassing per the instructions. After a couple of days I noticed there was a noticeable clear layer forming on top of the slightly less clear wine below, about two inches below the surface. A coupe days later the cleared layer seemed to have disappeared instead of lowering deeper into the carboy. It's been a week now and the wine is clearer than it was when I added the agents, but there is no stark gradient between a clear and unclear layer as some have described. Is something wrong?
Thanks, looking forward to learning a lot from you all!
-Ryan