Bamadoc

[Bamadoc]

Winemaking is new to me, and I have a scuppernong and peach fermenting now. I need to know the best way to clarify the wine before it is bottled.

Also, my peach has too much alcohol in it to be pleasant. I understand that there is a way to add more fruit juice to the wine to attenuate the alcohol effect. How do you do this, with respect to the volume of juice, sugar, etc?

 

[JasonH]

Hello and welcome. My advice for clarification is patience. I know I've been lucky but all my batches have cleared during secondary fermentation or shortly after. If you are having trouble or want your wine to clear faster, you can find something like bentonite or sparkalloid at your local home brew shop. I have also heard good things about Super-Kleer (sp?) but have never used it.

 

[robie]

Welcome Doc,

How old is your peach wine? Sometimes a newly fermented wine can taste very green and tart, giving the inpression of too much alcohol.

 

[jeepingchick]

when my peach was really young i was gonna toss it, i thought it was like lighter fluid!!! i finally got the nerve to try it again this month (bottled 9 months ago) and its relly pretty good now!!! I can't wait to try it again in another few months!!!

give it some time and let it age i think ull b pretty happy!!

and WELCOME

 

[Wade E]

Welcome Bamadoc. What you are probably referring to is what we call an F-Pac. (F=Flavor) What you do is take approx. 1/3rd the amount of the fruit you sed in making the wine and simmer it with no lid in a pot to expell much water from the fruit yet keep the sugars and flavor. I mash the fruit up good before adding it to the pan and try to simmer it to about 1/3rd its original size sometimes adding sugar in the mix just to help bring the flavor forward more then let cool and add it to your wine tasting while doing so so as not to add to much especially if you have swwtened this. I like to add that and then sweeten with simple syrup to my liking. Make sure you stabilize your already stable wine with sulfite and sorbate.

 

[xanxer82]

Make sure you're generous with the pectic enzyme with that peach.
Good luck!

 

[Wade E]

Forgot to answer your clearing question. You are going to get many different opinions on this one but time is the best and the cheapest and if that dont work then SuperKleer KC is there to save the day.