Sparkolloid

I've never had to use fining agents on my wines but I've had a pear wine that didn't want to clear so I used some Sparkolloid Powder. It's cleared the wine but whenever I try to draw the wine out, the finings get stirred up with any minor move of the siphon. Is there a fix for this?

Dick

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Dick Heckman
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Steve Peek

Same boat as youse w/ both peach and pear wines. Now that I've got experience w/ sparkalloids, I try to schedule an intermediate racking before hitting the bottling bucket. The cheapest/practicalest (I know that's not a real word) solution I've developed is to either use mini-vise grips or a hemostat/ jumbo roach-clip like devise to grip the cane. The mini-visegrip has enough mass to sit on the mouth of a carboy to hold the cane at a decent level to avoid hoovering too much lee, but aren't as gentle on plastic canes; I cracked one the 1st time. So the hemostats are more gentle on the plastics but require better, more delicate balancing skills on the carboy mouth. I've learned to live with the mini-visegrips and put the hemos away for other applications... HTH, regards, bob

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bobdrob

This item is at my local homebrew shop:

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and looks like it might be useful for holding your racking cane fast while you're distracted by the siphoning process.

Marshall

bobdrob wrote:

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Marshall Jose

Patience. Winemaking is not a hobby for those in a hurry.

The longer you wait after adding Sparkolloid before you try to rack the wine, the more compact (and less readily disturbed) the sediment will be. In my experience, this is a process measured in weeks, not hours or days.

Don't try to bottle it right away, either. Rack to a second carboy, then allow to settle again, for at least a week. Two weeks is better. *Then* bottle.

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Doug Miller

I've made pear before and had it clear just fine without needing anything. I used the same approach this time but no luck.

Dick

Pavel314 wrote:

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Dick Heckman

Not nearly as well as if you add them *before* filtering.

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Doug Miller

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