Hi all, second wine kit here so still not sure what is normal and what is weird. We are at the stage where we have added clarifiers and waited 10 days and are about to rack to the final carboy/bright tank.
There is a very viscous dark purple foam layer at the neck of the carboy, floating with the wine. It is a red wine, so the purple part makes sense, but what is this stuff? It looks like gellified foam from when we whipped the wine after adding chitosan. Is this normal? I will post photos later. We plan on going ahead and racking and hopefully leaving this jelly layer behind.
There is a very viscous dark purple foam layer at the neck of the carboy, floating with the wine. It is a red wine, so the purple part makes sense, but what is this stuff? It looks like gellified foam from when we whipped the wine after adding chitosan. Is this normal? I will post photos later. We plan on going ahead and racking and hopefully leaving this jelly layer behind.