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Grape Expectations replied to the thread My wine has dandruff! Crystalline stuff floating around on surface....It's only about 10L altogether. I fermented it for 10 days and today it's 14 days old from starting. It already has a slight Band-Aid... -
Grape Expectations reacted to Jim Welch's post in the thread My wine has dandruff! Crystalline stuff floating around on surface... with
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Kind of looks like yeast or some other microorganism. I had the floating tartrate crystals before, they looked a bit different iirc... -
Grape Expectations reacted to Rice_Guy's post in the thread My wine has dandruff! Crystalline stuff floating around on surface... with Like.
You do not have bitartrate floating in your wine. “Just finished” ,, I take it that you are still in the primary, not under air lock...
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Grape Expectations posted the thread My wine has dandruff! Crystalline stuff floating around on surface... in Beginners Wine Making Forum.Are these tartrate crystals? This is orange wine that's down to about 0.996 SG and just finished.
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Grape Expectations reacted to Jim Welch's post in the thread More acidity is a good thing? with Like.
Typically band aid notes are a sign of Brettanomyces infection/exposure. Maybe the chalk was contaminated with Brett if only wine with...
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Grape Expectations replied to the thread More acidity is a good thing?.I bet it is the chalk because it's near the end of it's shelf life, although it came from a sealed container. Jim, I have only been...
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I have been making orange wine and found that it tasted a bit acidic (3.4 pH) so I added 2 tsp of precipitated chalk to my 10L buckets...
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Grape Expectations replied to the thread Is there any disadvantage to adding precipitated chalk at the start?.I chanced it and added it. Threw 2 tsp (12g) of precipitated chalk into a 10L bucket. That's 20% more than the usual figure of 1g/L...
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Grape Expectations reacted to BigDaveK's post in the thread Is there any disadvantage to adding precipitated chalk at the start? with Like.
Yes, yeast would like a higher pH but so would other things, that's the problem. Taste can be a funny thing. The acid, sugar, and...
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Grape Expectations posted the thread Is there any disadvantage to adding precipitated chalk at the start? in Beginners Wine Making Forum.My orange wine, while fermenting fast and having an acceptable pH level, comes out tasting too acidic. Is there any disadvantage to...
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Grape Expectations posted the thread What I thought was a failure, has become my best wine yet... in General Wine Making Forum.I started off some cranberry juice (Ocean Spray Classic) and straight away (within 3 or 4 days) I could see there was hardly any...
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Grape Expectations posted the thread I made a calculator in Excel in Tutorials, Calculators, Wine Logs & Yeast Charts.I never realised there's a sub-forum here where calculators can be posted. I had another account here called "HomeBrew" and straight...
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Grape Expectations replied to the thread Should I ignore sugar content on juice labels and just take a hydrometer reading?.Another example where the label isn't accurate: Aldi orange juice... This orange juice now has different packaging and it says it's...
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Grape Expectations replied to the thread Stalling Cranberry, temp OK, pH OK....After three weeks fermenting it's still only managed to drop to 1.042 SG (12.4% ABV). It has about the same sugar levels as Coca-Cola...
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Grape Expectations replied to the thread Stalling Cranberry, temp OK, pH OK....When I test the orange I do (that ferments like a madman) that is also 1.048 SG on both hydrometers, so it averages out at around...
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