#everybitcountschallenge Day 18, 18 August 2022 Orange Wine - Into the Demijohn

 

Today the Orange wine has been filtered out of the Fermenting bucket and transferred to the Demijohns.  I have a third bottle about half full, which I shall use to top up the wine once the fermentation has bubbled a bit.  Will look again at the end of the week. You will notice that there is still space at the top in each Demijohn, it has been dealt with like this to prevent a full bubbly ferment overflowing the Demijohn which is something that could potentially happen.  It should have settled a little after the week.

All the equipment being soaked in Metabisulphate solution.  I put boiling water to the top of the bucket.

Starting to fill the clean Demijohn via a tube.  I had already strained the peel out of the bucket.  The tube for transferring the wine has a little tap on it.  The other end has a tube with a stick which has a round disk on it. This prevents the tube from hoovering up too much sediment.

Into the Demijohn with a gap at the top for expansion.  Explained above.

With the Fermentation Traps in place.  They have some of the Metabisulphate solution in them to keep flies etc. from spoiling the wine.

You will notice that I have used two types of fermentation trap.  The curvy one has a little red cap.  Sometimes this blows off and goes missing.  If this should happen or if you do loose it (they are only tiny) Just stick some cotton wool in the opening and that will keep the trap sterile.  It is important to do this.  You will need to put sterilising solution in each trap.  It is important to keep both types clean.  The spiral one is near enough impossible to clean out whereas the tube one is a lot easier.  Both are good traps and have fors and againsts.

Now we have to wait for the wine to work through.  Once there is no more bubbling in the Fermentation trap, you can then strain the sediment off, filter if required and then bottled up, covers put on and labels.  Some wines can be drunk reasonably quickly but most benefit from a little time in storage.

Now on to the next batch of Wine.  Think this time it will be Dried Apricot.  The Blackberry/Bramble wine will be strained and put into its Demijohn later in the week.  I think I also have an Elderflower Wine kit somewhere as well.  Will have to hunt that out.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

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