Rack again while clarifying brewking riesling?

.992 sounds right for a dry wine. There would of course be a signinficant sediment layer on the bottom - you've got spend yeast cells there, as well as the fining sediment.

If the wine is clear, you can bottle directly, but you'll have to be really careful about not disturbing the sediment. That's generally easier when there is less of it. If the carboy is the same size, you could rack and top up - that would deal with the air exposure. Probably best - do what the instructions say, you might as well follow them if yuo're not bulk aging.

Pp

I always rack at least once out of secondary, and usually more to get rid of the sediment in the bottom of the carboy. I would NEVER rack off a thick layer of sediment, as there's too much chance of disturbing the layer and bottling cloudy wine.

Ooops, typo in that. I wouldn't BOTTLE off thick sediment.

OK. I got .996 in my head for some reason.

In hindsight, a full half of the fermentation occurred in this vessel.

I endded up not transfering. I think I'm bottling tomorrow. Odds are that I won't siphon to another container first--if nothing else, I can just set aside the last bottle, and pour it into a pitcher for Sunday :)

thanks

hawk

You could rack it off the lees into the 7 gal and then rack it back into the first carboy where you could bulk age it for another month or two. It'd probably drop more fine sediment there and not in the bottle.

Don