Bottling a blueberry saison this afternoon and my bottling wand is completely clogged with blueberry debris. I did cold crash the past 24hrs or so but when I added priming sugar and gave a stir that looks to roused stuff. Suggestions?
i would but my wand's still completely clogged! damnit, i should've used mesh bag to begin with. suppose my real question is how the hell do i clean out this wand? the springs make it quite tricky.
Mine comes apart easily. The pieces are just held by a compression fit that can be pulled apart. It sounds like you will either need to wait for the sediment to settle or rerack and filter through a mesh bag. Suggestion for next time: maybe put your fruit in a mesh sack in the fermenter to retain sediments
You were bottling right from the fermenter? Siphoning to a bottling bucket with the priming sugar already in the bucket is the better method.
I was assuming he was using a bottling bucket. If not, OP, you should. It makes it easier and it is an opportunity to rack off of sediments that might otherwise clog your bottling wand. (It doesn't really matter whether you add the sugar to the bucket before, during, or after racking. Just give it a gentle stir and adequate mixing time).
For the first time I was going straight from the fermenter. Bad choice but was just doing my due to avoid oxidizing. I need to stop having ideas and stick to what I always do.
Some sort of a straining bag is mandatory anymore when I'm working with fruit. This goes for beer and wine. I've been where you were one too many times.
