Evets
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I bottled my Apple wine (11% ABV)tonite with the bottles I scored last week and my new corker.
No, I had no trouble whatsoever. Do you have the same corker as in my post? I used the expensive synthetic #9 corks( they don't dry out, so you can store the wine up-rite) wetted with sanitizer. They went right in.Flyin' Lion said:Evets,
Did you have any trouble corking your bottles completely? I bottled some wine for SWMBO a couple weeks ago and the cork stands out of the bottle about 3/8". When I brought this up with my LHBS they said I filled the bottle too much, but your bottles are just as full as mine. I adjusted the corker as far out as it would go and did dry runs (ruining half a dozen corks), but could not get the corks in any further.
Maybe I got a bad corker?
Evets said:No, I had no trouble whatsoever. Do you have the same corker as in my post? I used the expensive synthetic #9 corks( they don't dry out, so you can store the wine up-rite) wetted with sanitizer. They went right in.
Evets said:No, I had no trouble whatsoever. Do you have the same corker as in my post? I used the expensive synthetic #9 corks( they don't dry out, so you can store the wine up-rite) wetted with sanitizer. They went right in.
Flyin' Lion said:Evets,
Did you have any trouble corking your bottles completely? I bottled some wine for SWMBO a couple weeks ago and the cork stands out of the bottle about 3/8". When I brought this up with my LHBS they said I filled the bottle too much, but your bottles are just as full as mine. I adjusted the corker as far out as it would go and did dry runs (ruining half a dozen corks), but could not get the corks in any further.
Maybe I got a bad corker?
The photo doesn't do those bottles Justis. That is one clear wine!Evets said:I bottled my Apple wine (11% ABV)tonite with the bottles I scored last week and my new corker.
Preliator said:okay....i think i was abe to salvage this without generating jet fuel..... i was still in the 24 hour wait phase for adding the yeast.....so i added a bit of bottled water to adjust the SG. level down to 1.090-1.092..i will rack it over to a 6 gallon carboy when i put in secondary and hope for the best ...i will add the yeast tonight as well....it did seem awful high to me as well so i figured i would ask, i did use 7 pounds but perhaps 5 would have been better....ill take your advice and check as i mix in the future to get to a more desirable gravity range before hand....
i hope that this is a salvageable effort, i dont think it would not be being i had not added the yeast to the must, thank goodness for the 24 hour rule.....maybe.
running the projected abv it now looks like i will get a more desirable 12.5% versus the 27% i was looking at....whoaa nelly.....
thanks for the help and the input. much appreciated
anthony
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