Wine making kits usually contain 2-3 sachets with fining agents, beer kits  sometimes do as well (or you can buy finings separately). Understanding how a fining agent works will help you avoid many common mistakes often made by home wine making or beer making amateurs. Use finings to improve your turbo yeast  mash as well, before distilling.

But it turns out that yeast cells are cleverer than you would expect. They can't stop eating sugar, it is just too yummy, so they have to do something else to stay alive for as long as possible.

Hambleton Superklar homebrew wine finings is made from natural products and works a bit like "hair extensions" for the yeast cells. It is a two step process where the first sachet (kiselsol) will speed up the natural hair growth so the "clouds" appear sooner and the second sachet contains very long molecules (chitosan) that will be the "extra hair" which tie up the "clouds" more firmly.

So in short: Add the first sachet to speed up natural hair growth, then add the long molecules of sachet no 2 to bind the yeast cells more firmly to each other. They will of course then drop down very quickly and your wine will clear. Obviously, you need to be careful when adding sachet B - if you shake/stir too much you will break up the clouds when you really want to bind them together. You should only shake/stir enough to distribute the content in the liquid (so all "clouds" bind together).

Hambleton Bard UK are experts in fermentation technology, they manufacture the famous Alcotec range of super yeasts as well as extreme high alcohol yeast types, essences, activated carbon, extreme wine-kits, beer-kits and everything else for your extreme beer, wine or wash home brewing. They also manufacture and supply accessories like kegs, airlocks etc - in short - they are a full range homebrew manufacturer

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