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That is the worry, I still think I personally would stir, but I'd wash, sanitise, sterilise, sanitise and sterilise EVERYTHING that got near the open fermenter and have it open for a short a time as possible. Still a risk though!

Degassing a wine helps the clearing process. It will naturally degass over time and will then clear. If you manually degass then the wine will clear faster and therefore be drinkable earlier! If you're happy to wait then leave it alone. Personally I always degass athumb..

Personally I'd risk a stir and then take another SG reading, but leaving it alone should get it mixed eventually with normal yeast activity. I'd guess the fermentation will take longer, until the little yeasties have dug down to the bottom through all of their dead friends.

Don't stress! Get it racked into another bucket or demijohns or straight to bottles when you can. The world won't end if it's left too long, will it affect the final product? Let us know when you've done the sampling.

Had you been sampling a previous brew by any chance????

My label off "reserve" kit says the same. I say "sweeteners" in the sense that despite getting the SG down to 990 (or so) I think there's something in there that contributes a sweetness without being fermentable. Happy to be proved wrong, but I'd like to get mine drier if I could.

I haven't found a kit that ferments out dry enough to make an exceptional wine, and very good non the less. Still better than many supermarket wines though in my opinion. I've tried leaving to ferment for longer but it makes precious little difference in sweetness, so as you suggested I'm...

@Chippy_Tea What autosyphon do you use? As I've said I've not found one that I'm happy with there's a couple that I've sent for recycling... Do you find ANY air being introduced? Easy to clean?

See @Chippy_Tea 's post here Tips on syphoning What I've settled on is; two clips, simple syphon tube, tap and bottling wand. In addition I have a very short length of syphon tube to fit over the end of the tap, to keep the tap clean when doing the initial suck. Personally I would avoid the...

Yes the yeast generates heat while it's working. Although a 6 degree difference seems a lot from what I've seen, I ferment in buckets in my utility room. I've got some WinExpert Riesling (for the Mrs) on the go at moment and looking over the fermentrack log biggest difference between ambient...

Magical isn't it!

Nice!

I just add the sacket provided with the kit when the fermentation has finished, before clearing. I haven't yet added anything else at any point, my oldest aged wine was almost 2 years old and had improved in drinkability. I know the kit instructions say to add K meta for aging more than 3...

Do you mean grape juice from a supermarket? If you do then head over here https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/supermarket-juice-wine-how-to-guide-and-recipes.49462/ Loads of information and recipies. Makes very drinkable wine, but not like kits made from concentrate.

The juice is concentrated and most of the 30 bottle kits I feel are similar, On The House, VineCo, WinExpert. In fact the instructions are almost identical. There is an arguement put forward that the more concentrate the better result, personally I'm not so sure but I'm leaning towards...

Personally I think it's a very good summer drink and I'm not sure how it will survive over the winter at 6% but I'll give it a go. Also, I made the 30 bottle WinExpert CHardonnay last year, but I made it for immediate sharing and drinking. Went down very well 6 weeks from starting, so I don't...

@buddsy I just did a quick check on B2B and the classics are listed as £55 and the reserve at £78 @Tess Tickle Those are 6l of concentrate, so 30 bottle equivalent. I just made a Blood Orange Sangria and it's very very drinkable! Yes it's very "light" at only 6% but would dissapear very...

I made some of this in June last year and bottled the last demijohn earlier this week, so just over a year old. It most definitely improves with keeping. Having said that it's drinkable straight away! I hope this year I'll make more "for keeping" rather than drinking it straight away, maybe...

Absolutely you can. That's what I do and if your carefull you can get a couple of uses out of the caps. I think you can feel when the caps need to be replaced. Then you can still use the bottles just replace the caps with Novatwist Caps...

I've used them twice since "the problems" and the service was as good as it used to be.