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[mrchaos101]

So my wine bucket isnt enough to fill the carboy. I just racked it for the first time. See attached pics.

I have a smaller plastic carboy. 5 gallon. I can re rack it there right now if you guys font like tha air volume.

How many camp tabs...how often...crush or whole...when do the go in.

Same question as above with the potassium sorbate...

For now. I topped the carboy with an air lock.

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[Yooper]

It needs to go into a smaller carboy right away. If you haven't used campden lately, use it now, in the amount of 1 crushed and dissolved tablet per gallon and then rack the beer.

Sorbate is used right before bottling, so it will probably be a while. The wine has to be clear, and no longer dropping any sediment at all before it is used and effective.

 

[mrchaos101]

How fast is right away. Can i do it in an hour or 2 if i drop tabs now? Desolve in what and how much?

 

[mrchaos101]

Its about 5 gallons of wine so 10 tabs tonight?

 

[Yooper]

Its about 5 gallons of wine so 10 tabs tonight?

No. One tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little water, or a tiny bit of the wine, per gallon. So that makes 5.

You can use 1/4 cup of water, and crush the tablets and stir them in until they dissolve. It takes some smashing with a hard spoon, but they will dissolve with the stirring and smooshing them up against the side of the cup or bowl, then add that to the wine.

 

[pumpkinman2012]

If the wine has fermented to dry, there is no need to add sorbate unless you plan on back sweetening.

 

[mrchaos101]

Ok so what I did was crush 5 tablets. I had put them in already. THINKING I wuld be desolving 5 more later to put in.

I only put 5 crushed in. I then transferd it to a smaller carboy. So I think it mixed up ok during the transfer process. There is about 1.5 -2 inches from the air loc to the the top of the wine in the neck of the carboy.

Taste test of green wine before I racked was dry... not BRANDY dry, but it was not sweet.

I plan to brake this down to 2 botteling buckets. I will do 1/2 as is and I will back sweeten the other half.

I seen something about light. Should I cover the carboy in foil or a towel or something? And how long do you recomend before I rack it again?

I had enough let in the big carboy to fill a wine bottel and I put an air lock on that. Figured I could just add it back to the wine as rack and loos some.

 

[pumpkinman2012]

I'd fill that last 2 inch with the extra wine that you collected in the wine bottler. I cover my carboys with old T-Shirts.

 

[mrchaos101]

I have an air lock on the top of the carboy. I thought this needed done for a while to let it degas?

 

[jensmith]

Airlock yes. Tshirt is to cover the carboy to keep the sunlight off. Or you can leave it in a dark room. As long as it is not in direct light.


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