Posted in Clearing, Merlot on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a quick post to confirm that last night I did add the second part of the finings - the chitosan - to the Merlot. The sachet for this was slightly larger than for the kieselsol. I shook the contents for 10 seconds again, before replacing the airlock and returning the demijohn to the brewery [...]
Posted in Clearing, Merlot on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Following the instructions, I took the gromit out of the demijohn and poured in the small sachet of clear liquid labelled kieselsol. I took the airlock out of the gromit, replaced the gromit in the demijohn and with my thumb over the hole, I shook it for 10 seconds. I then replaced the airlock and [...]
Posted in Clearing, Merlot, Strawberry on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
24 hours after wracking the Strawberry, and a couple of days after wracking the Merlot, I was continuing to shake the wines as often as I remembered. This involved simply removing the airlocks and covering the hole with a cleaned thumb and shaking until it stopped fizzing when I removed my thumb (or until I [...]
