Using breastrets with red wine 92fasteddy999 Accuvin has paper strip, colour change based tests for several variables, including free S)2. They have 2 colour strips for that one - for low range 0-40ppm and for...
How big are the skins? I can see taking a small mesh bag and tying it to the delivery end of the siphon, capturing all the skins (buttuming they're properly sized to pbutt through the racking tube. Then, if you're racking into a carboy, pulling the bag through the neck of the carboy is likely to squeeze out a lot of the juice trapped in the skins. The trick is to not have a little filter attachment, but a big one, big enough that the skins don't become a dam for the wine moving through. Big enough bag should handle that...
I like your skimming idea, that may be a start, followed by the racking into a bag idea. That should get the most out of it.
Now, a wise crack, and this is absolutely true. I'm at a grocery store, where the checker has pbutted around to the other employees a list of jokes wherein the joke is aimed at people with lighter colored hair. One of which was "did you hear about the blond who was trapped for 4 hours at the mall during a power outage? She was riding the escalator at the time." OK, so the joke wasn't funny, but... and I swear this is true... I know this was one of the jokes because she was *explaining* it to another employee who happened to be blond. And no, the second employee wasn't playing dumb.
Gratuitous, but I swear it's true...
Rob
Apple Wine Where's The CharacterApple wine, especially if you've fined and filtered it, doesn't have a strong apple aroma or taste. All that clarification and racking will...
Dave Allison
