{"id":434,"date":"2009-08-15T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-12-30T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:00:02","slug":"is-that-supposed-to-look-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2009\/08\/15\/is-that-supposed-to-look-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Is That Supposed to Look Like That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-435 alignright\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"junk on zin\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/junk-on-zin.JPG\" alt=\"junk on zin\" width=\"247\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/junk-on-zin.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/junk-on-zin-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racking<\/a> off my Cellar Craft 5-week Old Vines Zinfandel kit today and noticed this yucky-looking white residue at the top of the wine, sticking to the side of the carboy as it was racked off.\u00a0 There was a lot of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/lees\/\">lees<\/a> at the bottom, too.\u00a0 I have an extra liter or so of that wine in a separate bottle, but that bottle also has a big layer of lees.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll have to wait to see if this residue is indicative of something bad, it smells OK today.\u00a0 So, I added the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/sorbate\/\">sorbate<\/a>, <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">Kmeta<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/stabilized-stabilizing\/\">stabilizing<\/a>\/<a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/fining-agents\/\">fining agents<\/a>, then topped off as much as I could with the surplus wine.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t quite enough, I ended up adding about 200 mL of water to top it.\u00a0 I did decide to keep about a liter of the lees from the bottom to see if it would settle out more, then I can add it when I rack for bottling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was racking off my Cellar Craft 5-week Old Vines Zinfandel kit today and noticed this yucky-looking white residue at the top of the wine, sticking to the side of the carboy as it was racked off.\u00a0 There was a lot of lees at the bottom, too.\u00a0 I have an extra liter or so of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,4,8,5,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}