Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every
day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not
disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.

I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good
reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?

Cheers

Sean

IT might be good to contact them and ask them for their reasoning. Most
wine kit companies are more than happy to answer your questions. It may
have to do with the yeast rather than the wine. I have seen instructions
for starting wine by sprinkling dry yeast on the surface and not stirring it
in. The second day you stir it only down about 1 inch. The third day you
stir it several inches down. after that you can stir it all the way down.
Supposedly this keeps the rapidly multiplying yeast cells near the surface
where they can get for air which is necessary during reproduction. But
contact the company and let us know what they say.

Ray

"snpm" > wrote in message
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> Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every
> day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not
> disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.
>
> I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good
> reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?
>
> Cheers
>
> Sean
>
>

I tried, Ray. The web nor the can gave any firm contact details

On Feb 20, 2:02 pm, "Ray Calvert" > wrote:
> IT might be good to contact them and ask them for their reasoning. Most
> wine kit companies are more than happy to answer your questions. It may
> have to do with the yeast rather than the wine. I have seen instructions
> for starting wine by sprinkling dry yeast on the surface and not stirring it
> in. The second day you stir it only down about 1 inch. The third day you
> stir it several inches down. after that you can stir it all the way down.
> Supposedly this keeps the rapidly multiplying yeast cells near the surface
> where they can get for air which is necessary during reproduction. But
> contact the company and let us know what they say.
>
> Ray
>
> "snpm" > wrote in message
>
> ups.com...
>
>
>
> > Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every
> > day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not
> > disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.
>
> > I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good
> > reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?
>
> > Cheers
>
> > Sean- Hide quoted text -
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Must have been a cheap kit. Oh well, that does not mean it will not turn
out. The best rule with a strange kit is to follow the instructions exatly
as given. But then I frequently break rules -- any rules.

Ray

"snpm" > wrote in message
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>
> I tried, Ray. The web nor the can gave any firm contact details
>
> On Feb 20, 2:02 pm, "Ray Calvert" > wrote:
>> IT might be good to contact them and ask them for their reasoning. Most
>> wine kit companies are more than happy to answer your questions. It may
>> have to do with the yeast rather than the wine. I have seen instructions
>> for starting wine by sprinkling dry yeast on the surface and not stirring
>> it
>> in. The second day you stir it only down about 1 inch. The third day
>> you
>> stir it several inches down. after that you can stir it all the way
>> down.
>> Supposedly this keeps the rapidly multiplying yeast cells near the
>> surface
>> where they can get for air which is necessary during reproduction. But
>> contact the company and let us know what they say.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>> "snpm" > wrote in message
>>
>> ups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every
>> > day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not
>> > disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.
>>
>> > I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good
>> > reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?
>>
>> > Cheers
>>
>> > Sean- Hide quoted text -
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pretty common kit from reading around, and seems to get decent
results. Well, I understand what you are saying but I couldnt do it. I
stirred as normal and it seems to be doing great now in the secondary.
Just for the record. Sometime I think we forget just how amazingly
long on the record our group postings are going to be here!

On Feb 22, 2:23 pm, "Ray Calvert" > wrote:
> Must have been a cheap kit. Oh well, that does not mean it will not turn
> out. The best rule with a strange kit is to follow the instructions exatly
> as given. But then I frequently break rules -- any rules.
>
> Ray
>
> "snpm" > wrote in message
>
> ups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > I tried, Ray. The web nor the can gave any firm contact details
>
> > On Feb 20, 2:02 pm, "Ray Calvert" > wrote:
> >> IT might be good to contact them and ask them for their reasoning. Most
> >> wine kit companies are more than happy to answer your questions. It may
> >> have to do with the yeast rather than the wine. I have seen instructions
> >> for starting wine by sprinkling dry yeast on the surface and not stirring
> >> it
> >> in. The second day you stir it only down about 1 inch. The third day
> >> you
> >> stir it several inches down. after that you can stir it all the way
> >> down.
> >> Supposedly this keeps the rapidly multiplying yeast cells near the
> >> surface
> >> where they can get for air which is necessary during reproduction. But
> >> contact the company and let us know what they say.
>
> >> Ray
>
> >> "snpm" > wrote in message
>
> roups.com...
>
> >> > Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every
> >> > day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not
> >> > disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.
>
> >> > I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good
> >> > reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?
>
> >> > Cheers
>
> >> > Sean- Hide quoted text -
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