Re: Racking while fermenating

Aug 22, 2003 0 Replies


I have one batch of rasberry wine and one with black current wine. The


> rasberry has been fermenting on the carboy for over a week and the activity
> has started to drop. I will wait another week before I add the last amount of
> sugar and water to the wine.
>
> I notice that there is over 10 cm with leese (sp?) on the bottom of the
> carboy. Previous year I havn't done anything with until the fermention was
> over and it was time to rack it.
>
> But I wonder if I should rack it while it is still fermenting. Any comments? >
> Jørn Dahl-Stamnes, EDB Teamco AS
> e-mail: snipped-for-privacy@nospam.novit.no (remove nospam first)
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It certainly will not hurt anything to rack it now. If you decide not to rack it yet, I would not leave it too long on all those gross lees.


--Greg

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