racked into secondary and tasted it last night. was really surprised. its a bit like champagne right now which makes me assume there's still a little bit of yeasty activity, so thats good.

its a little on the sweet side but not nearly as bad as i thought. you can definetely taste the resemblance to apple.

the only thing thats got me a little worried is its completely opaque. not even like a cloudy apple juice. it looks like i dumped half gallon of milk in there.

i have a little bit i put in a bottle in the fridge for topping up next time i rack.

i didnt know that when i made 6 gallons that it wouldnt fill the 6 gallon carboy . so i racked it back out and into my 5 gallon.

now all i need to do is fill my primary back up again :):):):)

I bought some apple cider from the grocery store. Had absorbic acid but also said it was pasturized. I suspect the pasturization is causing more haze. I am going to re treat mine with pectic enzyme.

Sounds pretty good. I am trying to clear a couple of batches and have added quite alot of things, I guess I just have to wait at this point. I have added plenty of pectic enzyme (my wine right now is at about 50º) sparkoloid and bentonite.

I need to get them bottled soon though, because I have 3 batches in primary and all my carboys are full.

See, my plan is to have done 52 batches of wine by the end of this year, I am ahead of my self this month. I have already made 4 batches this month.

So I need to bottle a couple of batches.

English Vintner

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The pasturized apple juice I started is heavy on the pectic haze. When it finishes its fermentation I'm going to give it a large dose of pectic enzyme. Close to 1 teaspoon per gallon. Then I think I will set out in the cold shop at about 55 degrees to see if the pectic will fall. This is a problem with a pasturized juice.

ok so after a couple days it has started settling.

there's an amazingly large amount of sediment.

i'll probably re rack in a week or so. i'll just have to keep an eye on it.

A couple of weeks on the gross lees is OK.