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9 days ago, I wrote a post about starting a batch of plum wine, this is a continuation post about the progress on that batch of wine. If you would like to read about how I started the batch of wine, you can read it here.
https://steemit.com/wine-making/@amberyooper/making-a-batch-of-plum-wine
The fermenting of the plum wine slowed down a couple days ago, but I had other things going on so I didn't get the wine transferred to the secondary fermentor until today. Also, I had to empty the 3 gallon carboy before I could transfer the plum wine into it. It still had 3 gallons of last year's rhubarb wine in it that I need to transfer to gallon jugs. I hadn't done that before because I didn't have the jugs to transfer it into. I had gotten more 1 gallon jugs a couple of weeks ago, but I procrastinated transferring the wine until today, because I had to do it today in order to be able to put the plum wine in the carboy.
After cleaning and sanitizing the gallon jugs that I needed for the 2017 rhubarb wine, I got everything set up for the transfer.
The best way to transfer the wine from the big jug to the smaller jugs is with a siphon hose.
I got 3 full one gallon jugs of rhubarb wine from the carboy.
I cleaned the dregs out of the 3 gallon carboy, and got it all washed out, and then got set up to transfer the fresh plum wine must into the carboy.
I siphoned off as much of the wine as I could from the sludge, and then I had to dump the sludge into a net bag to catch most of it so it wouldn't end up in the carboy. That's the messy part of the job. Maybe next time I'll put the fruit sludge into the net bag first and then put it in the fermenting bucket that way. The cleanup is less messy.
I ended up with most of the carboy full of raw plum wine. I will let this sit for a couple of weeks wit the airlock on the carboy so that there's no pressure buildup inside the carboy from the slow fermenting that's probably still going on.
Over the next couple of weeks, a lot of the sediment in the wine will drop to the bottom and I'll be able to siphon the wine off of the sediment to get rid of most of it. I don't know how long it will take for the plum wine to clear up, the last batch that I made in 2015 still isn't completely clear. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens over the next few weeks.
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