wine problem.....

Oscar Mild · Apr 17, 2019

Hi all, i put a winebuddy cab sav on to brew the other week and left it for 7/8 days to ferment, it did stop bubbling and the hydrometre reading was fine but there was a crust on top, so i went on to the next stage of adding the finings and stirred up the crust......now after 2 days of adding said finings the wine isn`t clear and i`ve got a load of floaty bits in the test jar when taking a sample, so my question is, have i been a bit too hasty and gone on to the next stage before the wine totally finished fermenting, if so is the wine no good now.

Chippy_Tea · Apr 17, 2019

What reading did you get?

Did you degass the wine when you added the stabiliser and finings?

Oscar Mild · Apr 17, 2019

Chippy_Tea said:
What reading did you get?

Did you degass the wine when you added the stabiliser and finings?

Hi Thanks for the reply, when i added the finings and the rest of the kit i stirred it up for a minute or so which broke up the crust. I `ve got the wine in a fermenting bucket which i was going to syphon off into a carboy, if that makes any difference.

Chippy_Tea · Apr 17, 2019

To make the wine clear you have to get as much of the CO2 out as you can as it stops it clearing stirring isn't a very good way of doing this have a look at the degassing wine the quick and easy way thread.

Oscar Mild · Apr 17, 2019

Chippy_Tea said:
What reading did you get?

Did you degass the wine when you added the stabiliser and finings?

The reading was about .0994 ish.

Oscar Mild · Apr 17, 2019

Chippy_Tea said:
To make the wine clear you have to get as much of the CO2 out as you can as it stops it clearing stirring isn't a very good way of doing this have a look at the degassing wine the quick and easy way thread.

Thanks again i`ll take a look.