Report for last night (Day 6)
I had a few errands to run after work, so it was late when I finally got home and I was ready for bed. I took a SG reading expecting it to be about 1.02, instead it was 1.012... time to transfer to the second fermenter. Looks like it's going to another hour until bed time.
Current alcohol content 10.59%
I mixed up a gallon of 1 step cleaner sanitizer and started washing stuff. siphon, siphon tube, big glass carboy, bung, and air lock.
Once it was all "clean" I mixed up a gallon of sodium metabisulphite sanitizer... sort of a belt and suspenders thing. At this step the sanitize part is critical for a good tasting wine.
Once all the equipment was ready it was time to rack
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When I racked it , the wine went from not foaming for the past couple of days to foaming like a rabid dog for about 10 minutes.
I let it settle, then cleaned up the mess. Probably lost about 2 ounces of wine to foaming over.
Now it is happily working away on the second ferment and steadily gurgling through the air lock.
oh, and you can see the cherry booch bottles hanging out on the table in case they decide to go BOOM from too much sugar content in second ferment. I'd rather clean up the breakfast nook than everything in the pantry.