Racking Wine
We finally got around to racking the wine. Racking is a process of siphoning the wine must from one container to the next, so as to leave any sediment behind. In fact that is the sole purpose of racking, "to leave the sediment behind."
We racked from the 7 gallon carboy into a normal 5 gallon water carboy.
This is a picture of some of the fruit we had to pull out just to be able to rack it properly.
Here is a closer picture of the 7 gallon car boy.
I ended up with about 4 gallons of wine in the 5 gallon regular water car boy so I added some water and vodka to fill in the head space or "air gap" that I had.
| Potential Alcohol | Balling | Specific Gravity |
|---|---|---|
| 22% | 37 | 1.161 |
| 10% | 20 | 1.080 |
The first set of numbers is the initial measurements and then the numbers after racking.
Again this is my first time making wine so any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,