Frost .. can be a good thing

Some of you will remember me mentioning a very acidic Muscat wine. Well tonight we got home to find a frost sitting on the cars in our street. "A-ha" thinks the brewer, that acidic wine may just drop some tartaric acid crystals in such conditions. So before our coat were off 2 gallons were placed outside and a prayer offered to Bacchus. Hopefully something that looks like broken glass in the bottom of the DJ's will greet me tomorrow.

Shufflin' Stuff About

Saturday and Sunday saw an opportunity to get on with moving brews about. The Pomegranate quickie wine was overdue moving to secondary fermentation, i had a sneaky sip, still sweet. A day later and the airlocks are busily blooping. Pic below of the 4 gallons of that brew.

The Green Tea & Ginger was ready for racking, fermentation all but stopped.

Sneaky sip confirmed that. Somewhere I've lost about half a gallon so there's "only" 4.5 gallons of it. I probably just overly trusted the calibration on the fermentation vessel, but it may have been the considerable sediment. Whatever, we'll live!

It's already started clearing, but obviously there is some way to go yet. I've started degassing, and will probably stabilise them in a few days

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