I was racking my pear juice experiment tonight and had the misfortune of hip
checking the table*. The lees was unsettled and started to cloud the
carbouy. Before I caught the problem some cloudiness reached the new
container. I stopped racking it and put everyting back under airlocks until
I decide what to do. The perry did have perfect clarity until the bump.

Should I rack the remaining two cloudy gallons across and let it all settle
out in the new vessel then rack it clear again?

Keep everything separate until gravity restores order?

Call the last two gallons lost and move on?

Could a coarse filter (a stack of coffee filters) aid my woes?


JF



*I'm fine, thanks for asking

My main worry about what you describe is what is your head space. I hope
you are not keeping to half filled carboys! I would probably put it all
back together and let it clear again. After it has cleared once, if you
stir it up, it will clear quickly. Give it a week or two and it will be as
clear or maybe clearer than before. Sometimes, if you stir up the sediment,
it will act as a fining agent and take things out of the wine that would not
fall out on their own.

Ray

"J F" > wrote in message
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>I was racking my pear juice experiment tonight and had the misfortune of
>hip
> checking the table*. The lees was unsettled and started to cloud the
> carbouy. Before I caught the problem some cloudiness reached the new
> container. I stopped racking it and put everyting back under airlocks
> until
> I decide what to do. The perry did have perfect clarity until the bump.
>
> Should I rack the remaining two cloudy gallons across and let it all
> settle
> out in the new vessel then rack it clear again?
>
> Keep everything separate until gravity restores order?
>
> Call the last two gallons lost and move on?
>
> Could a coarse filter (a stack of coffee filters) aid my woes?
>
>
> JF
>
>
>
> *I'm fine, thanks for asking
>
>

"Ray Calvert" > wrote in message
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> My main worry about what you describe is what is your head space. I hope
> you are not keeping to half filled carboys! I would probably put it all
> back together and let it clear again.
While not as clear as it once was I pulled it all across and will let it
settle for another week or two and then rack it again. It seems to only be
fine lees not the thick material that was disturbed. When I started the
tansfer I was moving nearly perfect clarity and the introduction of the haze
annoyed me.

"Ray Calvert" > wrote in message
news
> My main worry about what you describe is what is your head space. I hope
> you are not keeping to half filled carboys! I would probably put it all
> back together and let it clear again.
While not as clear as it once was I pulled it all across and will let it
settle for another week or two and then rack it again. It seems to only be
fine lees not the thick material that was disturbed. When I started the
tansfer I was moving nearly perfect clarity and the introduction of the haze
annoyed me.