Quick help please...must stir AJC in to prime

[KaiB]

Have all my Speidels occupied right now, so I must bottle from secondary - no bottling container available.

Current was in primary one month, secondary 45 days. Little trub on bottom will settle, but I'm nervous.

Added AJC measure to full secondary container and stirred a bit. Have wiggled the container also, but...

WILL THE AJC MIX EVENLY, HOW LONG UNTIL I HAVE A HOMOGENOUS MIXTURE.

Who's done this, who can tell me to relax, wait an hour and bottle up?

TIA...

 

[bmd2k1]

Have all my Speidels occupied right now, so I must bottle from secondary - no bottling container available.

Current was in primary one month, secondary 45 days. Little trub on bottom will settle, but I'm nervous.

Added AJC measure to full secondary container and stirred a bit. Have wiggled the container also, but...

WILL THE AJC MIX EVENLY, HOW LONG UNTIL I HAVE A HOMOGENOUS MIXTURE.

Who's done this, who can tell me to relax, wait an hour and bottle up?

TIA...

I know Pre-fermentation -- when I mix FAJC & juice in my Speidels - I swirl entire thing for about 30secs and have never had any issues. Can't speak about post-ferment as I don't do any FAJC additions in my protocol. Cheers & good luck [emoji111]

 

[Maylar]

It's not gonna mix without stirring, but you don't have to get carried away with it. Guess you should just wait for the lees to settle again before bottling.

 

[lump42]

Mylar's correct it's not going to mix anytime soon. As I can see you've got two options to bottle, you can gently stir it and let the less settle back out, maybe a few hours. Or run to a hardware store and pickup a food grade bucket or new trash can, depending on your batch size), transfer everything over and bottle with a siphon out of the new bucket. If it was me, I'd stir it up and let it sit for a few hours. You may just have more lees at the bottom of bottles and have to be more careful pouring off the bottles.

 

[KaiB]

Lump nailed my thoughts.

I ended up sterilizing my wife's 48" aluminum sewing ruler and stirring well.

As I always let sit one month in primary and rack carefully to secondary (for one to two months there), not much lees remained in that container. Let it sit a bit and bottled up...lost two bottles as the bottom was more cloudy than I wanted it to be.

Cheers...