Ernest T Bass
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I'll try again, I just spend about 30 minutes typing this post, and like my wine making, I did something wrong and it didn't post.
Please hold your laughter off until the end.
A friend gave me 5 quarts of muscadine preserves, they were probably 8 or 10 years old, don't really know, but the jars were dusty and the caps rusty, but still sealed good.
Here is what I did:
9/17 5 quarts of muscadines
5 pounds of sugar
1 package of bread yeast
3 gallons of well water
mixed all of this up real good
9/19 SpGr 1.080
Added 1/4 cup of sugar--trying to get it to 1.085
9/20 SpGr 1.065
9/22 Put in 4 gallon jug with air lock--don't know why I moved it then,
if I took a SpGr I didn't log it in. Probably didn't take one?
Tasted it, taste pretty good to
10/3 SpGr 1.010---bubbling about every 6 seconds
10/5 Racked---didn't take a SpGr, but it had not bubbled for 2 days
Lots of krud settled out, probably about 3 inches
Ended up with 3 1/2 gallons of wine, or what ever it is?
I racked it into 3 one gallon jugs and a 1/2 gallon jug, the last
half gallon had lots of krud, probably should have thrown it away
Racked it back to the 4 gallon carboy, well not really, I poured it
back, but I was very careful and let it just run down the funnel.
Added 1/2 gallon of water to bring level up to with-in 1 inch of
air lock.
10/6 Not working--raised temp in room to about 75* and added 2 cups of
sugar
3 hours later - Still nothing happening - Added 1 pack of yeast (Lalvin 71B- 1112) and stired gently
3 hours later - Added 4 teaspoons of yeast neutrient, 4 teaspoons of acid
blend and threw in a 1/4 teaspoon of tannin for good
measure, I guess if I had had anything else I would have
added it to.
When you get thru laughing, how about some help, or should I just
Chunk it ??????????
Semper Fi
Please hold your laughter off until the end.
A friend gave me 5 quarts of muscadine preserves, they were probably 8 or 10 years old, don't really know, but the jars were dusty and the caps rusty, but still sealed good.
Here is what I did:
9/17 5 quarts of muscadines
5 pounds of sugar
1 package of bread yeast
3 gallons of well water
mixed all of this up real good
9/19 SpGr 1.080
Added 1/4 cup of sugar--trying to get it to 1.085
9/20 SpGr 1.065
9/22 Put in 4 gallon jug with air lock--don't know why I moved it then,
if I took a SpGr I didn't log it in. Probably didn't take one?
Tasted it, taste pretty good to
10/3 SpGr 1.010---bubbling about every 6 seconds
10/5 Racked---didn't take a SpGr, but it had not bubbled for 2 days
Lots of krud settled out, probably about 3 inches
Ended up with 3 1/2 gallons of wine, or what ever it is?
I racked it into 3 one gallon jugs and a 1/2 gallon jug, the last
half gallon had lots of krud, probably should have thrown it away
Racked it back to the 4 gallon carboy, well not really, I poured it
back, but I was very careful and let it just run down the funnel.
Added 1/2 gallon of water to bring level up to with-in 1 inch of
air lock.
10/6 Not working--raised temp in room to about 75* and added 2 cups of
sugar
3 hours later - Still nothing happening - Added 1 pack of yeast (Lalvin 71B- 1112) and stired gently
3 hours later - Added 4 teaspoons of yeast neutrient, 4 teaspoons of acid
blend and threw in a 1/4 teaspoon of tannin for good
measure, I guess if I had had anything else I would have
added it to.
When you get thru laughing, how about some help, or should I just
Chunk it ??????????
Semper Fi