Recent content by Zurd

If you check my videos, there is both foam and fizz. Sometimes you can see the fizz with the little tiny bubbles raising to the surface after shaking. That said, no my wine is not fizzy and doesn't have a head... it just happens if you shake it, again, it's in the video.

Very true, just for fun I shake other things to compare, it doesn't do as much foam/bubbles as wine but still.

No, not using too much metabisulphate, just the regular amount package that comes with the kit. No it doesn't have any vinegar flavor, like I said before, wine taste fine, it's just a curiosity why there is so much foam/bubble.

Here's the final conclusion of this project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ssi4qzehG9q9n1u32eK_nQP_jXSxZUiI/view?usp=sharing @ 00:00:00 my homemade wine fermented with an airlock @ 00:03:59 my homemade wine fermented without an airlock @ 00:04:28 wine from the store With an airlock, there...

Bottling done, gravity is 0.994 after 24 days. So it dropped 0.002 but the reading is not digital, it can be plus or minus 0.001, I would say there is little to no fermentation going on. Or at least, not enough to make this wine so foamy and bubbly. The point #2 from bernardsmith makes sense to...

Ok I have a batch of Pinot Grigo that I started 02-13, did the raking and secondary fermentation on 03-07 so 22 days later. Now 4 days later the gravity is at 0.996. I'll wait and do another reading, we will know if there's still some fermentation going on.

For the next batch, I'll record the gravity at start, end and then after 1-2 weeks in the bottle. That way we will know if there is still fermentation going on because the gravity will be lower at the third reading. I will also do another test with another batch with the lid loose on the bucket...

Wow, excellent explanation, thank you so much. I don't know how much sugar there is, not written anywhere, it's a 7 liters concentrated grape juice that makes 30 bottles of 750ml. For sure there must be a lot of sugar in it, just don't know how much exactly. I do everything in a bucket, no...

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11SGVVEN25bGtrMp-CzMMvfuGKPeYYXWu/view?usp=sharing Well, title says it all, why is my wine so carbonated and with so much foam? It tastes fine, just like usual, foam is not really a problem but I'm curious. You can see the date and hour at the bottom...

Well in the end I finally went to the brew shop and bought some chitosan While there, I bought a pack of yeast, kieselsol and another chitosan as a backup so this will not happen again! Yeast in the fridge and the 2 other pack in closet, should have a few years of shelf-life!

Good idea, can a mod move this thread?

Hi, just a few minutes ago I used scissors to open the package of everything (yeast, chitosan, kielsesol, etc.), it's an all-in-one package wine (Argentia Ridge - Pinot Noir) and by mistake I also cut the chitosan package that was inside (it's the biggest one after all). All is fine but then i...

I finished my testing of bottling wine in plastic bottles and the results is too much oxidation, the wine doesn't taste that good. Drinkable but harsh. I don't recommend. For the test, I bottled most of the wine in glass (control group) and only two bottles in plastic, one which had tonic water...

It's a success! I bottled them about a week ago and everyone love it, thanks all for everything, I now know what to do if that ever happens again! :)

It's fermenting right now, I only lost one liter out of 7, so only 1/7th, it's not much, I don't think it will make much of a difference. Instead of 23 liters, I made a batch of around 20 liters.