{"id":162,"date":"2008-02-04T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/rhubarb-wine-recipe-first-racking\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T13:00:33","slug":"rhubarb-wine-recipe-first-racking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/rhubarb-wine-recipe-first-racking\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb Wine Recipe: First Racking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 1\/30\/08, the specific gravity (SG) of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/rhubarb-wine-recipe\/\">rhubarb wine<\/a> had dropped to 1.000, and that means fermentation is finished or nearly finished. So, ten days after I pitched the yeast, I racked into a 1-gallon jug, two wine bottles, and an 8-oz (about 240 ml) coke bottle. When you&#8217;re working with small volumes like this, it pays to have a variety of small containers handy. I got caught short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/racking-topping-up-and-that-extra-little-bit\/\">three months ago<\/a>, and learned my lesson. So, in addition to the wine bottles and the coke bottle, I had some 16 oz (not quite 500 ml) and 20 oz (almost 600 ml) bottles ready.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an opaque golden color and a little fizzy right now. In time it will clear and become still. The SG will drop a little and some yeast will settle out. At that point, I&#8217;ll test the acidity, make any needed adjustments, and rack again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make good wine by paying attention to the details. Here I&#8217;m racking my rhubarb wine after ten days, careful use containers that match the volume of my wine.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winemaking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}