0730
- Brix 2.1
- Juice temp 72, room temp 74, outside 59 windy and about to drizzle
Another 20% drop in the last 10 hours. No foam to speak of, lazy bubbles, and if you put your ear to the side of the tank there's still crackle. If today's like yesterday we can expect something like 1.6 or 1.7 this evening and maybe 1.2 on the morning of day 10. Maybe rack this afternoon and let ferm finish ina more airtight place.
14:30
- Brix 1.5
- Juice 72 F, room 71.5 F, outside 58 and rainy
Boom! Done. Lori and I moved the juice from the primary fermenter to 5+5+5+5+1+1 carboys and jugs, leaving behind maybe close to a gallon of watery sludge: maybe we could have used it to get to a 3-gallon CB, but we didn't.
Transfer was as easy as pie and very neat - no spillage. Took the extra paranoid step of wrapping the carboy caps and drilled stoppers with cling wrap. Washed the primary fermentation tank out in the street, and if it ever stops raining we'll get it meta'd and stowed. (Did this now because tomorrow looks just too busy and I didn't want to let the juice go below zero in the primary if we weren't around.) Took lots of pics & videos. Using caps on the carboys, drilled stoppers on the jugs, and 3-piece airlocks all around.
A couple of videos. What the xfer looks like - long and sort of boring, but, hey, it takes a year to get to where we're going, so relax. And a look at the sludge at the bottom of the fermenter. Much more liquid than I expected and, repeating what I wrote above, I wonder if we should have simply saved it in a 3-gallon CB along with the 2 gallons that went into jusgs. Too late.
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