Clearing my homemade wine!
August 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Up until now ( and bearing in mind I’m 2 weeks into the home made wine process ) the wine has looked a little bit like cloudy urine - not the most enchanting description, I appreciate, but true nevertheless!
So today was the day scheduled to add some clearing agents - to be more accurate Potassium Metabisulphite, Potassium Sorbate and a Fining Agent!
After adding each ingredient, the shout of the day was to stir the mixture vigorously for a few minutes! Luckily, I had the help of Chris Onslow who introduced the Pacman method of stirring!
All this completed - I can only report on two things.
Firstly, the wine is still very cloudy, but this shouldn’t be too suprising, as the vigorous stirring will have caused all the sediment to cloud up, and I guess the next step of the process takes two weeks, and the clarity should come in this time!
Secondly - the colour has changed already from an amber colour to a more grapey colour!
I’ll update on Monday!
