Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
I'm getting a couple Chilean buckets and will be "enhancing" each with a lug of grapes. One Malbec, one Carmenere. Should I plan on doing MLF?
I'm under the impression most of the juice buckets are balanced and not good candidates for MLF. I would check with your source to see
ibglowin said:I don't see an issue. Most buckets receive little or no manipulation compared to say a kit which is made to sit on a shelf for as long as a year. If anything is done on a bucket it would be a bump in the Brix or a hit of Tartaric in case acid was low. Neither of these would affect MLF and MLF would round out the flavor profile nicely.
Mike,
I am getting 2 buckets of Sauvignon blanc, would you recommend doing MLB on these?
Boatboy24 said:MoreWine has Enoferm Alpha in a 2.5g pack and claims that is enough for 66 gallons. I'll have approximately 14 total, so I'm expecting that single pack will be enough. I guess I should go ahead and grab some Optimalo while I'm ordering, and a chromatography test kit. Anything else? From what I've read, it looks like I'd pitch the MLB when I move to secondary. Is that about right?
Pitch the ML bacteria when your fermentation is done. Between 0.996 and 0.992.
Active yeast will compete with the bacteria causing the bacteria to fail or move very slowly.
Rack it..then pitch it.
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