Acid test

[ffemt128]

Checking the acid of my Elderberry Juice. It is coming up .1875 %. I want assume I'll want to check this again after I add my juice to necessary water/grape concentrate. Is this correct? What I've read acid % should be around .65% for this after adjusting.

 

[winemaker_3352]

If you are just adding water - it will lower the acid level - not sure - but the concentrate might raise it a little - but the addition of water might cancel it out.

But - i will take another acid reading after adding all that - be sure to give a good stir to get it mixed in.

.60-.65 is good for fruit.

 

[CoachPieps]

How do you get such a fine reading, do you have a special tester?

 

[CoachPieps]

And yes, fruit should be about .5 to .7

 

[ffemt128]

How do you get such a fine reading, do you have a special tester?

Took the reading and multiplied. Thats what it came out to be. After adding water and 2 cans of grape juice concentrate my reading was .3

 

[winemaker_3352]

An Acid Test Kit:

http://www.finevinewines.com/ProdDetA.asp?PartNumber=5400

 

[ffemt128]

An Acid Test Kit:

http://www.finevinewines.com/ProdDetA.asp?PartNumber=5400

Thats pretty much the one I have

 

[Luc]

Checking the acid of my Elderberry Juice. It is coming up .1875 %. I want assume I'll want to check this again after I add my juice to necessary water/grape concentrate. Is this correct? What I've read acid % should be around .65% for this after adjusting.

So your juice is .1875
Meaning very low ????

Or did I misread the figure ???

The juice should indeed be at 5. to .7

Luc

 

[ffemt128]

So your juice is .1875
Meaning very low ????

Or did I misread the figure ???

The juice should indeed be at 5. to .7

Luc

Juice itself was very low, as was excected based on what I read. It was adjusted after other ingredients were added to .65