Picked up 4 gallons of fresh merlot juice on October 6, fermented in primary for a week ( SG < 1.000) racked to Carboy and inoculated with Bacchus MLB on the 13th. It appears that MLF is done as there are no more small bubbles. The wine has dropped sediment and has started to clear over the last couple days. I don't have equipment to test for completion. My feeling is that MLF may be done and it is time to rack and stabilize. Would anything bad happen if I stabilize a bit prematurely? Seems like the worst that could happen is there is malic acid left, but you'd think there'd still be less than if I hadn't done MLF at all.