Apple and Red Grape wine

[Portreath]

I put together a Sainsbury apple and red grape wine. Only a DJ full, all seems OK but it's been fermenting for about 5 weeks now. Is this about right for fermentation length. As an ale brewer this does seem a tab long.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Way too long 7 to 10 days should be enough even at winter temperatures in our houses, have you taken a reading?

 

[Portreath]

Wow, that fast. No, did not bother with gravity, just put it together as a test. I'll rack off to another DJ today. Do you add the fining before or after degassing?

 

[chewie]

Halt the fermentation first, then degass and then the finings. If you add finings and then degass you only end up stirring the sediment back up.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Halt the fermentation first, then degass and then the finings. If you add finings and then degass you only end up stirring the sediment back up.

Not sure i understand this, you have to stir the finings into the wine properly or it doesn't work so you are going to stir any settled sediment back in. (there shouldn't be much to stir back in at this stage)

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[Portreath]

Well I'm 4 days into this de-gassing by shaking the DJ malarky and I'm still getting plenty of white foam at each attempt. In general, how long does this approach take?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

You will always get white foam but the hiss of CO2 should have got less each time you released it, i used the shake method a couple of times on one day before making a degassing wand and it was fine i would move on to the next step if i were you.

 

[Portreath]

Cheers thanks.