Hi guys. New here from Greensburg pa. My girlfriend and i did a wine kit a few months ago and it turned out great! Only wish we werent going though the bottles so quickly. Wine expert pino nior the premium kit.
Anyway to my question. We bought two pales of chilean juice and brought them home friday afternoon (2 days ago). That evening we came home (after going to a winery lol) to a slight mess of a boil over of active fermentation with both of them. Juice was on the floor too. I really didnt want to add any sulfute before fermentation so it took me until sat morn to decide to add a exact 1/4 teaspoon sulfite.
Saturday evening 12hrs later: still fermenting real good, so i added a heaping 1/4 teaspoon sulfite.
Sunday morning still bubbling away real good!
So at that point i was like well idk the metabisulfite didnt work or i didnt add enough at one time. But the bag of metabisulfite and our instruction sheet all say 1/4 teaspoon fir 6 gallons kill wild yeast. Is that just the dose before they take over?
What shall we do? Let it ride and hope it comes out? We still havent pitched our yeast becasuse with the wild yeast in there that have taken over full fermentation probably wont allow our yeast to even do anything. (Plus we have added metabisulfite, and 12-24hr should go by before pitching yeast after doing that right?
Please help! Thanks guys. Been brewing beer for a long time and so im not green on the whole fermentation process, just wondering what the deal with the sulfite is???
We really only wanted to add a slight amount of sulfite when we go to secondary so im thinking at this point just pitch the yeast and hope it ferments along side the wild yeast.
Also no the juice bucket didnt have yeast already added to it.
Anyway to my question. We bought two pales of chilean juice and brought them home friday afternoon (2 days ago). That evening we came home (after going to a winery lol) to a slight mess of a boil over of active fermentation with both of them. Juice was on the floor too. I really didnt want to add any sulfute before fermentation so it took me until sat morn to decide to add a exact 1/4 teaspoon sulfite.
Saturday evening 12hrs later: still fermenting real good, so i added a heaping 1/4 teaspoon sulfite.
Sunday morning still bubbling away real good!
So at that point i was like well idk the metabisulfite didnt work or i didnt add enough at one time. But the bag of metabisulfite and our instruction sheet all say 1/4 teaspoon fir 6 gallons kill wild yeast. Is that just the dose before they take over?
What shall we do? Let it ride and hope it comes out? We still havent pitched our yeast becasuse with the wild yeast in there that have taken over full fermentation probably wont allow our yeast to even do anything. (Plus we have added metabisulfite, and 12-24hr should go by before pitching yeast after doing that right?
Please help! Thanks guys. Been brewing beer for a long time and so im not green on the whole fermentation process, just wondering what the deal with the sulfite is???
We really only wanted to add a slight amount of sulfite when we go to secondary so im thinking at this point just pitch the yeast and hope it ferments along side the wild yeast.
Also no the juice bucket didnt have yeast already added to it.