I've got a few wine batches under my belt but I'm still trying to figure a few things out. This is quite the learning process!
I'm trying to prevent loss when racking from my primary to my secondary. I'm not to worried about other rackings since I don't experience much loss with them and am comfortable topping up with wine or doing the marble trick.
My issue is the first racking from the bucket to the 5 gallon carbouy - I always seem to have a substantial loss there. I was wondering if I'm not making my initial batch large enough - it hits the 5 gallon mark on the bucket perfectly but perhaps it should be higher then the 5 gallon mark to allow for loss on that first racking... Any suggestions to help is appreciated.
I'm trying to prevent loss when racking from my primary to my secondary. I'm not to worried about other rackings since I don't experience much loss with them and am comfortable topping up with wine or doing the marble trick.
My issue is the first racking from the bucket to the 5 gallon carbouy - I always seem to have a substantial loss there. I was wondering if I'm not making my initial batch large enough - it hits the 5 gallon mark on the bucket perfectly but perhaps it should be higher then the 5 gallon mark to allow for loss on that first racking... Any suggestions to help is appreciated.