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Clearing from the bottom????
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(Barry) wrote in message . com>...
> I have 3 gallons of a Plum wine that has been slow to clear. The last
> time I racked it (4th time) was five weeks ago.
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> Tonight I used a little pen light to study it closely. The bottom 2
> inches of the is quite nice, while the farther up I go it gets murkier
> and murkier.
>
The gros lees from my current batch of rose hip wine did the same
thing. There was a tiny bit of fermentation going on that made them
float. After a while they fell to the bottom. The compact lees that
come later sink right to the bottom without these shenanigans. You
say it tastes great, so maybe there's still residual sugar for yeast
trapped in the muck to keep bouying it up?
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