wine now bubbling after adding sorbate?

[yeastluvr]

My apple wine is 3-4 months old in the carboy. Its been clear for a while now with no airlock activity. Two days ago I added campden and sorbate to the carboy. Now my wine is fairly activily bubbling. I did have some C02 release when I added the campden and sorbate to the carboy several days ago, almost like I opened up a slightly shaken up pop. I'm just wondering why it is still bubbling after almost three days, almost like it is fermenting but I know its not as the hydrometer is steady. Any thoughts on this or similar experiences?

 

[Yooper]

My apple wine is 3-4 months old in the carboy. Its been clear for a while now with no airlock activity. Two days ago I added campden and sorbate to the carboy. Now my wine is fairly activily bubbling. I did have some C02 release when I added the campden and sorbate to the carboy several days ago, almost like I opened up a slightly shaken up pop. I'm just wondering why it is still bubbling after almost three days, almost like it is fermenting but I know its not as the hydrometer is steady. Any thoughts on this or similar experiences?

Adding the sorbate and campden probably caused some nucleation points, and it's still off-gassing. If the hydrometer is steady, you're fine.

 

[malkore]

did you degas like you're supposed to? typically the degassing for the recipes I've been reading get done when you stabilize and add the finings.

 

[Yooper]

You typically don't degas "country wines". The only time you have to degas is for kit wines, or if you've been fermenting on the cool side and have a ton of gas bubbles you need to get rid of before bottling.

I have degassed only ONE wine out of all the wines I've done over the years, and that's only because I had it crash cooled to clarify and wanted to rush it into the bottle. If you have a gassy wine, you could try splash racking into some sulfite to knock the co2 out. It is much less likely to oxidize the wine then going though mechanical degassing.

 

[yeastluvr]

Well, its still bubbling pretty good....My thoughts are just to let it keep on bubbling unti it stops in hopes it gets most the gas out.

 

[Turnerdude1]

My apple wine did the same thing after I added sorbate to it and it bubbled for three months with a stable hydrometer reading. I did stir it with my drill paddle as I got desperate and got yelled at on here, but it is not in bottles and doing fine...

 

[michaelbelt]

Why did you get yelled at? Is the drill paddle method frowned upon?

 

[mmadmikes1]

it will oxidize the wine