{"id":272,"date":"2013-11-07T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2013-11-08T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:43:57","slug":"racking-off-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/racking-off-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Racking off Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-256\" alt=\"500D_1821\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1821-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1821-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1821-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1821.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cider-making.co.uk\/cider-recipes.html\/pear-cider-recipe.html\">recipe from cider-making.co.uk<\/a> said it would have a specific gravity of 1.010 at the end of fermentation, and it was spot on.\u00a0 The recipe says rack off and bottle.\u00a0 I am not sure if this is rack off, wait a bit, then bottle; or bottle straight away.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255 alignright\" alt=\"500D_1820\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1820-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1820-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1820-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1820.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Either way, I needed the temperature checking demijohn for my cider\u00a0 so racked off (moved in to a new demijohn) it would be.\u00a0 There was a lot of sediment, meaning that the racked off demijohn was rather far from the top (nearly a litre down).\u00a0 I now know you can top up with sugar water at this stage.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure how much sugar to put in but after internal debate I decided that sugar with og 1.030 would be about right to keep the overall alcohol content the same.\u00a0 I will do the calculations another day.<\/p>\n<p>Like the cider earlier, I tasted this brew.\u00a0 It was actually not that nice.\u00a0 Just that bland homebrew sort of taste.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe it is the yeast, maybe it just needs to age.\u00a0 Off to the garage it went, already bubbling away as the sugar was digested by the remaining yeast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1822.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-257\" alt=\"500D_1822\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1822-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1822-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1822-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1822.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Off to the garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recipe from cider-making.co.uk said it would have a specific gravity of 1.010 at the end of fermentation, and it was spot on.\u00a0 The recipe says rack off and bottle.\u00a0 I am not sure if this is rack off, wait a bit, then bottle; or bottle straight away.\u00a0 Either way, I needed the temperature checking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/racking-off-perry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racking off Perry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-old-manse-2013-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}