[Growwine] WHite Blend

Terry Rayner terry.rayner at sympatico.ca
Mon May 5 11:44:34 EDT 2008


Jim, have you thought about trying a product called Polyact, it's a mixture 
of PVPP and casein.

Terry


>From: "Jim Lloyd" <jiml5 at nexicom.net>
>Reply-To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
>To: "growwine" <growwine at littlefatwino.com>
>Subject: [Growwine] WHite Blend
>Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:15:29 -0400
>
>Last year, I made a white blend of approx 20 % Swenson White & 80 % Prairie 
>Star. Crushed and pressed the same day. Bx was around 18 - 20 for the 
>blend. Added sugar and sulphite and yeasted. Fermentation went well, but 
>yielded a very orange cloudy brew. No ML.
>
>Fining with gelatin dropped the cloudiness and a lot of the colour, but 
>there still remained an orange hue. As well, the wine was bitter. On the 
>nose and in the taste, you can sense the astringency.
>
>Any ideas on how to further clean this up  ???
>
>Jim


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