OneCerebralSamurai
Well-Known Member
My peach wine won't clear....
Recipe:
6gal batch
4.5gal Welch's white grape peach juice (SG = 1.057)
5x 12oz white grape juice concentrate
9cups cane sugar
1tsp energizer
1tsp nutrient
water to 6gal
EC-1118
OG = 1.090
After 1 week, SG = 1.004. Racked to secondary.
After 3 weeks, SG = 0.994. Racked, stirred several times to degas, and added 1.5tsp sorbate and 6 campden tabs. After that, I applied SuperKleer-KC per the instructions...
Normally after I apply SuperKleerKC, my wines are clear in a few days to two weeks. After TEN weeks, this batch was still very cloudy. I racked it again, and applied a second dose of SuperKleerKC which doesn't seem to be working very well either.
In my Googling, I've noticed that other people have had problems with peach wine some claim that using pectic enzyme helped (I didn't use it because I didn't heat anything). Some people claim that bentonite worked when other clarifiers failed. Some people said nothing short of filtering worked (though filtering worked very well).
Any suggestions? It's starting to taste very good, so drinking cloudy wine isn't a catastrophe. I do like to give my wine as gifts, so I would like to get it as clear as possible.
Recipe:
6gal batch
4.5gal Welch's white grape peach juice (SG = 1.057)
5x 12oz white grape juice concentrate
9cups cane sugar
1tsp energizer
1tsp nutrient
water to 6gal
EC-1118
OG = 1.090
After 1 week, SG = 1.004. Racked to secondary.
After 3 weeks, SG = 0.994. Racked, stirred several times to degas, and added 1.5tsp sorbate and 6 campden tabs. After that, I applied SuperKleer-KC per the instructions...
Normally after I apply SuperKleerKC, my wines are clear in a few days to two weeks. After TEN weeks, this batch was still very cloudy. I racked it again, and applied a second dose of SuperKleerKC which doesn't seem to be working very well either.
In my Googling, I've noticed that other people have had problems with peach wine some claim that using pectic enzyme helped (I didn't use it because I didn't heat anything). Some people claim that bentonite worked when other clarifiers failed. Some people said nothing short of filtering worked (though filtering worked very well).
Any suggestions? It's starting to taste very good, so drinking cloudy wine isn't a catastrophe. I do like to give my wine as gifts, so I would like to get it as clear as possible.