Something odd has happened: I made (or rather am making) a Selection
International Gwertztrimner kit. Now, in retrospect, I admit that I was
a bit too hasty stabilizing and clarifying this wine. (SG 0.996) I am
new at this after all. Any way, I stabilized using the metabisulfite
and the sorbate that came with the kit, degassed and clarified the wine,
and I followed the instructions religiously. I decided to leave it in
the secondary for a month or so before I bottled it. Now, I swear, I
really swear that the fermentation lock on the secondary was absolutely
flat during the period it was clarifying. And clarify it did,
beautifully I might add. After it had clarified I racked it off about 6
days ago, and decided to leave it in the secondary for about a month or
so before I bottled it.

Just this evening, I went down stairs, and something caught my eye: The
fermentation lock burped. I said to myself, this cannot be, but I
stayed and watched it. Sure enough - very slowly, fermentation lock is
bubbling - therefore, I can only assume fermentation has begun again.

I guess the only thing to do is to watch it carefully and see where it
goes from here.

Has this ever happened to anyone here? What can I expect to happen?

Abby
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