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Wine making basic

Hey Everyone,

Can anybody help.

This is the first time I have made wine, and have bought your wine making kit form Brew it yourself.

Do I have to syphon off the wine and transferee it to a carryboy on day 8 of the cycle, or do I siphon it into a bucket, clean out the fermenting tank and then transferee it back into the cleaned/sterilized fermenting tank and attach the bung and airlock to the fermenting tank.

Thanks!!!

 

Hello ronald,

The instructions that come with the wine kit are quite advanced. You can leave the wine in the fermenter until the whole process has completed and it's ready to be bottled. I made the wine in this way and it tasted just fine.

The advantage of moving the wine from on vessel to another is you remove the liquid from the dead yeast - which will settle at the bottom of the fermentation tank. The down side is there is a higher risk of infection due to exposing the wine to air and possible contamination in the next bucket/fermentation bin.

If you decide just to use the one fermentation tank, you need to leave the wine for a week or so to settle before transferring into bottles.

Cheers!!!!

 

Is there any risk in altering the flavour of the wine by leaving the dead yeast on the bottom? Does it make any major difference in the final product, whether you siphon it into a new container or not?

 

now I have a great question. do you have to let your wine sit and chill for years and years before you can actually drink it?

 

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