One Good Bump Deserves Another

Nov 12, 2004 2 Replies

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J F 21 years ago

I was racking my pear juice experiment tonight and had the misfortune of hip checking the table*. The lees was unsettled and started to cloud the carbouy. Before I caught the problem some cloudiness reached the new container. I stopped racking it and put everyting back under airlocks until I decide what to do. The perry did have perfect clarity until the bump.

Should I rack the remaining two cloudy gallons across and let it all settle out in the new vessel then rack it clear again?

Keep everything separate until gravity restores order?

Call the last two gallons lost and move on?

Could a coarse filter (a stack of coffee filters) aid my woes?

*I'm fine, thanks for asking

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Ray Calvert 21 years ago

My main worry about what you describe is what is your head space. I hope you are not keeping to half filled carboys! I would probably put it all back together and let it clear again. After it has cleared once, if you stir it up, it will clear quickly. Give it a week or two and it will be as clear or maybe clearer than before. Sometimes, if you stir up the sediment, it will act as a fining agent and take things out of the wine that would not fall out on their own.

Ray

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J F 21 years ago

While not as clear as it once was I pulled it all across and will let it settle for another week or two and then rack it again. It seems to only be fine lees not the thick material that was disturbed. When I started the tansfer I was moving nearly perfect clarity and the introduction of the haze annoyed me.

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