peach bomb conundrum

Mar 25, 2006 3 Replies

hellllloooo group! here's my latest, long winded conundrum ( I like that word!)



I started this peach wine last october using a previously successful modified keller recepie; fresh & frozen fruit & my old pal Domino. SG 1.13 @



60* (conveniently.) used red star champagne; the basement temp dropped into the 50's during primary (new england weather!) ferm stalled, fed it, anticipated high TA so I pitched EC 1118, which stalled, then hoisted the primary into the kitchen, much to my wife's dismay. ave temp rose to 65-70, massaged yeast, no significant restart; recorded an SG creep to 1.05in late november. reverse cultured Turboyeast & pitched; alleged final SG 1.0+a hair . racked to carboys, returned to basement. 2nd racking in january, SG 1.0 even yielded (2) 6.5 carboys + 1.5 gallons in carlo rossi carboys. hot mix sparkolloid in february of the 2 carboys. cleared great, racked again ,yeilded 2@ 5gals + 1.5 gals in a carlo plus a growler. still had 1.5 gals uncleared. all in basement, ambient temp lo to mid 40's. temp imcrease recently warmed basement to upper 40's lo 50's and then the un-fined gal jug developed a ring of effervesence, but only that jug which measured an un adjusted SG of .9975. the fined carboys tested similarly. so the question is : since the SG adjusts out to .9925, if i bottled soon, which i had planned to do, am i risking peach grenades if i don't stablize? all responses greatly appreciated. regards, bob

Hi Bob,

If in doubt, wait another 30 days, if the SG has not changed since your last reading, then it should be ready to bottle.

Steve

Bob, You didnt say if you planned to sweeten the wine or not and that certainly would have a bearing on this. I would suggest sulphiting and then sorbating as nothing gets a fermentation going better than some aeration and bottling or so it seems! It is a calculated risk and at the SG you are at probably you might just get some sparkling wine, but you never know. HTH John Dixon

i don't sweeeten, as we prefer a drier bev. and i've never bottled a sparkling wine either. i guess i'm off to my LHBW store for some chemistry...

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