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12

Can I rack my homemade wine simply by carefully funneling it into another bottle?

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asked:


I am making an embarrassingly cheap (the cheapest possible, in fact) wine out of grape juice and I was wondering about the process.

Assuming that I don’t have a siphon, can I simply pour the wine through a funnel with a coffee filter on it into another sanitized jar?

The wine (Welch’s grape juice, mind you) is almost done fermenting, but it’s still cloudy. Should I refrigerate it in order for it all to settle or should I rack it and then refrigerate it so that it settles better?

Just give me a decent answer (sans sarcasm) and I’ll mark you as the best. Thanks.

Leslie

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    2 Responses to “Can I rack my homemade wine simply by carefully funneling it into another bottle?”

    1. Richard English on January 16th, 2012 3:18 am

      Much better to use a syphon and rack your wine into another vessel. If you don’t have a syphon then just use any old bit of tubing. If you pour it through a funnel with a filter the filter will quickly clog with sediment and just stop working.

      Racking by means of a syphon was invented because using a filter doesn’t work.

    2. Weatherman on January 18th, 2012 2:47 pm

      For few days you can then discard this sludge without putting it will probably lead to the yeast go dormant and.