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winehomie

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Hello everyone, haven't posted in a while, but I have a question. I am making a 3 gallons of wine from some wild Muscadines, and I had a brain fart and added potassium sorbate to the juice instead of a campden tablet. Have I ruined my wine or can I wait and add more yeast?
 
Potassium Sorbate is not very effective if the sulfite level is low, so as long as you don't add the campden you may be able to still ferment the juice. I would make up a starter of your selected yeast using some juice without sorbate, once fermenting add a small amount of the main juice and wait for activity, then add the starter to the main batch.
 
ok got it started, added twice as much yeast as called for and it is percolating slowly but it is percolating. maybe a month from now I might have a passable wine, I guess I will find out.
 

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