pre-measured kmeta in kit seems a lot.

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Doing a 16l heron bay s.a. pinotage kit. Got to stabilization stage yestday and when I opened the meta package it seemed to be a lot, so I emptied it into a tablespoon and it was almost half full. I figured that had to be some kind of mixture to help dissolve or something.
I called the tech support today and the guy says that 4.5 to 5 grams is the right amount for the degassing stage as there is more oxygen introduced.

5 gr. is equivalent to roughly 1.6 to 1.8 tsp. :rdo

I don't think the w.e. kits I did had anywhere near that, and I'm used to seeing sulphite additions in the range of 1/4 to 1/2 tsp., not 1 and 1/2.

Isn't that way too much meta? I've got another h.b. kit that's almost ready to stabilize as well and I'm thinking of reducing some of that.

Thoughts anyone???

Steve
 
Just checked out the Wineadds website. For 6 gallons, 5gr kmeta is about
125 ppm. Seems like an overkill to me.
 

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