Making a kit wine. The bag of elderflowers is to be removed when racking off the primary, but now I have elderflowers everywhere in the must.
Any thoughts on how to remove a thousand little specks? Any problem in carrying some of it over into secondary?
TIA, Jim
Wrap the inlet end of the siphon with a couple of layers of brand new pantyhose. Anything that makes it past that will not hurt in the secondary, and will come out fine in the clarification.--Irene
Don't worry about a bit of solids getting into secondary. When fermentation ends they will drop out pretty quickly. Then rack off of them. Now I will qualify this. I have done it this way with other things but not flower peddles. I don't see why they would be different. Anyway this is the way I would do it.
Ray
Thanks all. I put the racking tube into a straining bag and kept the top of the bag from falling into the must. Worked perfectly. Strikes me as a simple way to keep the tube from clogging anytime you rack with floaties.
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