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I've recently made a great IPA, loosely based of Nugget Nectar profile/schedule, and have some questions on improving the hop floral character. I'm planning on throwing in about 4 oz of various hop pellets into my primary and letting it sit for a week at room temp (about 68). 1) My...

Thanks. So how can I distinguish between so2 and co2 to determine degassing is complete?

I bottled my wine, per the instructions and got as much gas as I physically could (pumping via hand pump for days, vigorously stirring with drill mounted stir stick). The "burp" test still revealed some trapped gas, but it was very clear, had a good taste (no gassy taste detected) Question...

Anyone here use a bottling bucket with spigot for filling wine bottles? Everywhere I read recommends hooking your filler directly to the siphon.

I was afraid of bottle bombs if I didn't get every last bubble of gas untapped

And Thx so much for the help

Honestly tasted beautiful like a young wine. No carbonated mouth feel at all. Should I stop abusing the wine with the so2 vacuum pull?

It's my first batch of wine and I'm just concerned that I'm not able to. Get every last ounce of gas out of my wine before I bottle. I'm pumping every day and some bubbles come up when I create a vacuum

I agree, however I hit below the specified final gravity a few days in a row so fermentation had completed

Well, no airlock activity at all. Small bubbles come out Everytime I attach a hand pump vacuum and create a vacuum

Yes hit the final gravity

I am working hard to degas for close to a week with stirring mix stir drill, vacuum with hand pump. Everytime I check with the puff of air test the wine kit recommends, seems like there is still gas in there. Am I going to make bottle bombs if I bottle in 2 weeks? How much is enough??

I racked to a new carboy, sanitized my 6 gal carboy, then racked back and in between hit it with the drill for another 2 min. I tried the puff test and it still puffed. This is after daily vacuum with my handpump. If I hand pump over the next 2 weeks during clearing you think I will be...

Or did I do an adequate job for a kit? Not trying to create the world's greatest wine...

So should retry my mix stir?