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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• poleslav@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Trust me it gets worse! I didn’t think to take a light up directly to the unfiltered product, but here you can get an idea of how bad it was pre filter. I imagine the haziness is from the pectin of the mariad of berries I used to make this wine

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  • MuteDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    next time add some pectinase to the ferment. You can try adding some to this wine now if you want, it works better during primary as the yeast keeps it stirred up in suspension, but it can still work post ferment.

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    • poleslav@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Appreciate it! I will say I’m also super weird, it’s why I wanted to try pasteurizing this wine in one of my beer kegs vs adding stuff to kill the fermentation before backsweetening. Typically I when I make a beverage I try doing things not by the book, it also helps that I don’t mind having hazy beverages, I just turned a house water filter into a fermentation filter with some random fittings and dreams for shits and giggles and that’s definitely the vibe I take with all my brewing lol

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      • MuteDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, those whole house filters aren’t too uncommon in the homebrewing world, I’ve also seen them stuffed full of hops or whatever and used as a randall. If you’re keeping the keg cold I wouldn’t even both with pasteurization.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah OK I can definitely see the improvement from filtering compared to the unfiltered

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    • poleslav@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      Yeah, to make things more equal here is that wine post filtering held up to the same light as the original image as of a few minutes ago. I don’t think there was any other filtration that happened with it since I kegged it since it’s been sitting in a warm keg in storage after filtration and backsweetening

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