Just for the record wine will burn your eyes and nose when sprayed under pressure at your face.
10-20-12 Transferring Day. Gravity 1.002.
OK so I thought I would get and early start on this saturday. Armed with one stout cup of coffee in me at 7:30 A.M. I was ready to transfer the newly made wine into a 6 gallon carboy. Drew off my test sample and drained the conical into the secondary, a 6 gallon carboy. After putting in the stopper I decided to put my thumb over the hole for the stopper and give the carboy a man like swirl but forgot to let my thumb off right away causing it to shoot my new wine directly into my face and surrounding area. I gotta say I should have waited until after the 2nd racking before I did any kind of carboy shaking. Or next time do it on a weeknight after work instead of early on a saturday.
I'm don't have any #'s on Ph or TA yet as this batch is needing some time to degauss before I proceed. I am questioning my degaussing efforts on step one right about now.