buddsy
Regular.
hahaha I think it was a case of I know what will be a good idea followed by the dawning a couple of hours later of that might not have been a good idea after all!
I don't have a fermzilla (yet!) and have only read about brewing beer under pressure , but just to be clear (and going for this months Homer Simpson D'oh! award ) did you apply too much pressure or should you never brew wine under pressure ?I just remembered a mistake I made with the last red WinExpert kit I made with my conical fermenter and am pointing out so others dont make the same mistake.
Usually I use mine for beer making and its usual to apply a bit of CO2 to either purge air out or during transfer. Im trying to remember exactly what I did but I think after racking into the conical I purged with CO2 and I think I added a bit of pressure so it would be easy to bottle via the floating dip tube. Couple of days later I realised what I had started to do was to carbonate the wine! I don't remember how long or how much pressure I added but the wine was slightly fizzy and took me a couple of months after re degassing to finally remove it. During which time it sat in a carboy with a airlock.
Im not sure what I was thinking...or not.
buddsy
I don't have a fermzilla (yet!) and have only read about brewing beer under pressure , but just to be clear (and going for this months Homer Simpson D'oh! award ) did you apply too much pressure or should you never brew wine under pressure ?
should you never brew wine under pressure
I tend to give the metal upright a good 40 or so bangs with my fist and that is very good at shaking the side accumulation down.Fermentation has slowed but still bubbling.
The yeast has been dropping out to the bottom.
Ive given the fermentor a few slight rotating swirls and some of the debris on the sides has fallen to the bottom and the wine is much brighter.
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buddsy
So I checked the fg which has to be under 0.996. Mine I measured at 0.994.
Racked off in to a clean carboy.
Added the next packs of chemicals then degassed.
Someone was asking about wine degassing. This is how I do it...Not sure if its how its meant to be done but seemed to work out well last time.
buddsy
Hi any chance you can add a link of the type of pump you are using? Id be interested to see that.I've got a very small vacuum pump that runs on AA batteries and that I've rigged up through the gas post to the fermentasaurus.
If I can snaffle another one I'll put it in the suitcase when I come over for Christmas and post it to you.@RoomWithABrew You've got some very interesting gadgets, I thought I had a problem, but I'm so jealous!
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