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Yes, it's started bubbling again! Good learning experience anyway, I will be more careful next time.

Yes that was my understanding that the stuff at the bottom was mostly just dead cells. I didn't know that about adding water so thanks. I was mainly doing it just because I heard there should be very little headspace. I'll know next time! Thanks for the info guys, much appreciated!

Yeah, will check the SP a few days apart. Before racking it would bubble every 4-5 seconds. What would cause it to suddenly stop fermenting do you think? Is it the water I added to top it up or something to do with the process of moving it from one container to another?

Postscript: I haven't seen a bubble yet but the water in the airlock has moved, being pushed up, so maybe there's life in the old dog yet!

Thanks. I didn't know this. I just thought it would be better for the taste to separate it from all the yeast and stuff at the bottom. I didn't realise anything needed to be added. After about 10 minutes of no bubbling I did actually add a little more sugar to see if I could bring it back to...

Hi! I have had this pumpkin wine fermenting about a month. I decided to rack it into another carboy to get rid of the gunge at the bottom. Thing is, it's stopped bubbling! Have I somehow killed it? I have heard you shouldn't leave any headspace so I topped it up with water, could that have done...

Ok, a bit of a complicated question here, higher mathematics to me, but then I'm a newbie to wine. I followed a recipe for pumpkin wine which involved adding sugar in three stages over the first couple of weeks. To make a long story short, just after second batch of sugar was added OG was 1.063...

I followed this, not to the letter but more or less: https://moonshiners.club/pumpkin-wine-recipe/

Thanks, seems safe enough. Yes I had it in a big bucket the first 4 days then put it in the carboy, bubbling away nicely by the looks of it. Fingers crossed!

Hi! So I am making some wine from pumpkins, never tried wine before (have made cider before) but I'm wondering something. The plan is to rack the wine in about a month from the smaller 10 litre carboy, temporarily into the large 25 litre one. I've heard that a lot of headspace isn't good for...