maybe i didnt stir my wineexpert island mist long enought for clarifying??

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dont know for sure :) stirred for about a half hour after i put the stabilizers in and before the clarifier.

anyway, yesterday, before i put the clarifier in, while putting in the f-pack, I noted how slowly the sediment was settling(or lack thereof). after i put the clarifier in, I stirred some more(no one said i couldnt stir too much!) and the sediment dropped in 30 seconds!! still some stuff in suspension, but going from a mudlike opacity to near glass clear is a bit shocking.

should i let it sit? or should i stir a bunch today. I know that'll throw off the number of days to let settle, but i wont mind letting this sit for an extra week or two.

Joe Sallustio · Accepted Answer

No need to stir, stop it. :) keep it topped.

The reason it settled like that was the two 'clarifiers' (that is just another name for a fining agent) were different electrical charges so they 'stuck' to one another and the result was heavy enough to drop.

Let it sit, maybe give it a twist or two if you see sediment stuck to the walls.

Rack when a flashlight beam shining through the wine looks the same at the top and bottom of the carboy. It's an easy way to see if it's settled. You will see more beam on a cloudy wine than clear, kind of like the effect of headlights when driving in fog.

Joe

Ray Calvert · Answer

You stopped your first stirring too soon. Insead of 30 min's, you needed to stir it for 30 min and 30 sec's. Really, Joe is probably right. Leave it alone now untill it clears. Do not worry overly about the number of days in the schedule. Wine has it's own schedule that the instructions in the kit are really just guidlines. With a little practice, the wine will tell you when to do things.

Ray

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