Welch’s Grape Juice Wine Racking
173 days agoYes, it has been 2 weeks in the primary fermenter and now I had racked it. Most of the yeast and whatever will be left behind and the wine can then further condition in a clean container. Look at how clear the wine is now. If you have read my previous post about this Welch’s Grape Juice wine, you could see how cloudy (or murky even) the wine was in the beginning. The yeast, whatever sediments moving about in the wine/juice as carbon dioxide is produced by the yeast – that is why the wine is cloudy. Once most of the fermentation has completed, the higher alcohol content (things will tend to sink down in alcohol) of the wine will force the yeast and sediments to settle down at the bottom. That is a good thing because we like our wines clear. Most people relate sediments in wine as being “spolit” or contaminated. But at any rate, yeast in wine might give off-flavours, so it is actually good to remove the wine from the yeast (or lees).
As you can see, the colour of this wine is darker than the first one I made from Berri Dark Grape Juice. If the initial juice is darker, obviously the resulting wine will be darker as well. Oh and the resulting brew is very clear. You probably won’t be able to see that from the picture. Somehow I can’t taste a clear photo of the liquid in the bottle. My skills with the camera needs a lot of improvement. Anyway I feel that this Welch’s might have a lot more flavour than the Berri one. However, I had not yet tried the Welch’s, so I might be wrong. I added a little more sugar to the Welch’s Grape Juice and this Welch’s originally should have more sugars than the Berri – so this should result in some very potent wine.
I am still waiting for my bung and airlock to arrive. It should arrive any day now. But it seems that the postal service is highly unreliable. I remembered about half a year back I bought something from the same eBay seller and it arrived within 2 weeks. But it has been over 2 weeks now, still no sign of the airlocks and bungs. Hopefully it will arrive before Christmas. I will post some photos then.
