mrchaos101
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So yesterday I elected to rack my Welches Grape yesterday. This was the 2nd racking. THIS TIME it was "CLEAR". Looked great! I lost about 1 bottle worth off the bottom do to what had settled. I placed all of this into another bottle to see if I can get it to settle again to get a few more glasses.
The wine was grate. It was dry. This batch I wanted sweet... so I removed 2 more bottles worth of wine. Dropped 5 crushed camden tablets, dropped them...then used grape juice to back sweeten it a tad. Filled it back up to the neck of the bottle.
I think this will be a good batch. I have nothing else to put in it chemical wise ..other than some potassium sorbate (sp?) . When does this go in?
I have back sweetened and put airlock back. I have plans to bottle it in 10 days unless you all say I need to do something else?
ALSO on project 2:
I am worried about this. I have racked it the first time. The stuff at the bottom was a cream goo compared to Project 1. The smells are not the same. A taste of the green wine seems to be ok with an off flavor .I think its the yeast still. This batch was done with REAL raspberries. Wife thinks its different because we used real fruit. The thing is . About 3 days after I made it, I filtered out all the chunks of fruit that were left. I am worried about this. Taste of the juice before it went in was killer! This batch was a mixture of crushed berries, apple/raspberry juice and white grape juice.
When I racked this I dropped 6 camden tablets crushed. It is a 6gal batch. I HOPE I didnt kill this stuff.
The wine was grate. It was dry. This batch I wanted sweet... so I removed 2 more bottles worth of wine. Dropped 5 crushed camden tablets, dropped them...then used grape juice to back sweeten it a tad. Filled it back up to the neck of the bottle.
I think this will be a good batch. I have nothing else to put in it chemical wise ..other than some potassium sorbate (sp?) . When does this go in?
I have back sweetened and put airlock back. I have plans to bottle it in 10 days unless you all say I need to do something else?
ALSO on project 2:
I am worried about this. I have racked it the first time. The stuff at the bottom was a cream goo compared to Project 1. The smells are not the same. A taste of the green wine seems to be ok with an off flavor .I think its the yeast still. This batch was done with REAL raspberries. Wife thinks its different because we used real fruit. The thing is . About 3 days after I made it, I filtered out all the chunks of fruit that were left. I am worried about this. Taste of the juice before it went in was killer! This batch was a mixture of crushed berries, apple/raspberry juice and white grape juice.
When I racked this I dropped 6 camden tablets crushed. It is a 6gal batch. I HOPE I didnt kill this stuff.
