Rack1

Usually, you can get some sort of an idea on how a wine will turn out after the first racking. I have no clue what this wine will taste like. I think part of the problem was that the cucumber slices were so think, and spread throughout the entire bucket, so the yeast didn't have a chance to settle all the way to the bottom like it usually does.



I used a large slotted spoon to get the gunk out, letting the juice run back into the bucket. I then siphoned the liquid off of anything that had settled to the bottom, which at this point I think was not much.



I still have a few seeds floating around in there, but I'm hopeful that those will take care of themselves through the rest of the process. The wine was a really nasty brownish greenish color, but again I think a lot of that was the yeast still being suspended throughout the liquid. I'm hoping that a lot of that will clear by the next racking. It smells and tastes very much of cucumber with a side of yeast. It certainly has potential to mellow out and be delicious, so I guess we'll see!

Just a side note, i tested the specific gravity before adding the yeast, and it was right around 1.090, so we'll see how the alcohol content turns out also!