{"id":126,"date":"2007-11-09T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/racking-topping-up-and-that-extra-little-bit\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:00:03","slug":"racking-topping-up-and-that-extra-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/racking-topping-up-and-that-extra-little-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Racking, Topping Up, And That Extra Little Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I rack a wine or mead, I try to have empty containers of various sizes ready. The idea is to end up with the smallest number of full containers and the least amount of waste. I use 1-gallon jugs, half-gallon jugs, wine bottles (half, standard, and magnum), beer bottles, and even 8 oz (240 ml) coke bottles. That usually works out pretty well, but I was caught short when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/a-simple-mead-recipe-acid-and-oak\/\">racked my mead<\/a> the other day.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/20071106 too much headspace.jpg\" alt=\"A 1-gallon jug half-filled with mead.\" title=\"Too much headspace\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nAll that headspace is dangerous, and I really could&#8217;ve used a half-gallon jug. What can you do when you just don&#8217;t have the right sized containers handy? First I reached for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/measuring-sulfite\/\">sulfite<\/a>. I normally go by the rule of thumb of adding a 1-campden-tablet equivalent every other time I rack. If I added sulfite at the first racking, for example, I would skip it the second time. This was one of the times I skipped the sulfite, so the 5-gallon carboy with the oak did not get any. But I sulfited this 1-gallon jug, and at double the normal rate. That doesn&#8217;t make it ok, but it might buy me a little time. Part 2 of my plan is to rack other wines and meads in the next day or two and combine this mead with them. I might use it to top some of them up, or combine extras from many different batches, including this one, into one container.<\/p>\n<p>So work with what you have, but then put a &#8220;plan B&#8221; into action right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I rack a wine or mead, I try to have empty containers of various sizes ready. The idea is to end up with the smallest number of full containers and the least amount of waste. I use 1-gallon jugs, half-gallon jugs, wine bottles (half, standard, and magnum), beer bottles, and even 8 oz (240 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winemaking","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}