UPDATE: Strawberry (KIT) & Rhubarb wine

Well it's been three days, so the Strawberry Wine kit has had it's posh water top up, this time it was with some Scottish highland spring water. £0.45 for 2 liters.

Fermentation took off again and went immediately into a state of airlock overflow, calmed down about and hour later to a nice constant burb.

The Strawberry wine now just sits and ferments out for about a week, it's a nice colour unlike the Rhubarb wine.

The Rhubarb wine still looks like mud. I was reading about clearing wine in my book, First Steps in Winemaking by C.J.J. Berry, and in there it says about using Bentonite to clear wine during fermentation, I had also noticed that the Strawberry wine kit had used bentonite when adding the Yeast and Nutrient packets.

So today I decided to add 1 tsp of Bentonite to the still fermenting Rhubarb wine. I just plopped the Bentonite powder straight in, hoping that the fermentation bubbles will mix it in well enough.

The Rhubarb wine will need racking soon anyway as there is quite a build up of sediment at the bottom of the demijohn already so hopefully with the addition of the bentonite at this stage it will clear it some more before I rack the wine in a few days time. We shall see, as the experiment continues.