Monday, August 20, 2007

Racked Fantôme Clone to Secondary

Yesterday afternoon, I racked the Fantôme clone to secondary. The gravity was at 1.006, down quite a ways from 1.050 (although that starting gravity was lower than I had hoped for). It tasted pretty good, though it had been in primary for 8 days. A lot of crud had settled out!

I took the fruit puree (see below) and heated it to 160 F for 10 minutes, then cooled and poured into the bottle of my carboy. On top of that, I racked the beer from primary and about mid-volume, added 5 drops of pectic enzyme.

I checked it last night and it was throwing off a little gas, so I guess fruit sugar conversion is working. I'm going to let this sit for three weeks and see where I'm at. I'm really looking forward to this one.

4 comments:

Adam said...

Wow, you are really taking the bull by the horns. Nice to see the clone action going on. Good to see you are still plugging away!

PaulJ said...

Hey Nate, just dropped by to check out your blog. Keep up the good work!
Stay in touch.

Paul

Adam said...

Ok...what is pectic enzyme?

Nate said...

The best answer I can give you about pectin and brewing is someone else's answer ...

http://byo.com/mrwizard/1017.html