MattN
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The Mrs bought 3x1.5ltrs of fresh ginger beer juice drink from Asda at the end of October and asked me to make some Ginger wine. I decided that after reviewing the ingredients the flavour could do with some help so I bought 40 Ginger tea bags and 2 litres of WGJ and make it up to two DJ's worth.
Strangely even though they have both got exactly the same ingredients in each DJ they have behaved very differently throughout fermentation.
I racked them at the end of December and the SG was about 10 points apart, had a taste and realised that they weren't going to be show stoppers. Any way last week I decided enough was enough with these two and added potassium sorbate and a CT to each DJ, then degassed and added some finings.
I was going to bottle it tonight and as I was sanitizing all the bits and bobs I have realised that it is still fermenting at the rate of 1 bubble every six minutes.
The combined SG is 1.016 and the OG was 1.096. I have just read that potassium sorbate isn't a fermentation stopper even though the tub is labelled 'fermentation stopper'
What do you think? To bottle or not to bottle, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..... explosions or bung it in some PET bottles. :clap:
Cheers
Matt
Strangely even though they have both got exactly the same ingredients in each DJ they have behaved very differently throughout fermentation.
I racked them at the end of December and the SG was about 10 points apart, had a taste and realised that they weren't going to be show stoppers. Any way last week I decided enough was enough with these two and added potassium sorbate and a CT to each DJ, then degassed and added some finings.
I was going to bottle it tonight and as I was sanitizing all the bits and bobs I have realised that it is still fermenting at the rate of 1 bubble every six minutes.
The combined SG is 1.016 and the OG was 1.096. I have just read that potassium sorbate isn't a fermentation stopper even though the tub is labelled 'fermentation stopper'
What do you think? To bottle or not to bottle, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..... explosions or bung it in some PET bottles. :clap:
Cheers
Matt