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Offline Patrickwhite74

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Well, I'm an idiot.
« on: March 27, 2017, 05:19:57 pm »
So, making a hibiscus wine I have made a million times before. I used to just bottle carb and now I'm all fancy and have a kegging system. I dialed up the sugar in this batch and the hibiscus got overwhelmed. So, I figured lets just age it on some more flowers while I carb it in the keg......here's the good part. I forgot to use a bag. I dumped a fat pile of hibiscus flowers in my keg with my nearly finished wine. How screwed am I?

Offline erockrph

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Re: Well, I'm an idiot.
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2017, 08:49:54 pm »
Hibiscus flowers float in my experience. You can jump to a new keg until the liquid level gets low enough to suck up some flowers. Other options are a dip tube screen or scooping them out with a slotted spoon.

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Offline el_capitan

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Re: Well, I'm an idiot.
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2017, 08:40:59 pm »
Yeah, why not just vent the keg, remove the "out" post, then pull the dip tube way up.  Add a small sanitized nylon stocking over the end of the dip tube with a zip tie or some dental floss.  Drop 'er back in and let it rip.  What does hibiscus wine taste like?