Hi all,
I bought the kit this weekend and it comes with a generous amount of oak chips and grape skins along with a cheese cloth tube sock (for lack of a better explanation). It also came with two infusion bags (I think that's what they're called). Fermentation started this weekend with oak and grape skin in the cheese cloth. However, everything is floating to the top instead of being deep into the juice.
Does it make a difference whether the added "bonus items" are floating (i.e. diminishing oxygen exposure) or sunk to the bottom? If it's better to have those items submerged, is there a good trick to achieve this?
Right now, with that cheese cloth blob floating along with the two infusion bags, it's covering a large portion of the surface.
I bought the kit this weekend and it comes with a generous amount of oak chips and grape skins along with a cheese cloth tube sock (for lack of a better explanation). It also came with two infusion bags (I think that's what they're called). Fermentation started this weekend with oak and grape skin in the cheese cloth. However, everything is floating to the top instead of being deep into the juice.
Does it make a difference whether the added "bonus items" are floating (i.e. diminishing oxygen exposure) or sunk to the bottom? If it's better to have those items submerged, is there a good trick to achieve this?
Right now, with that cheese cloth blob floating along with the two infusion bags, it's covering a large portion of the surface.