LenniePike
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Made several 5 gallon batches of blackberry using Wade's recipe and two of the batches have refermented on me. Recipe and procedures were as follows:
-34 # of berries split in two buckets, each bucket had:
-1.5 tsp of pectic enzyme
-1.5 tsp yeast nutrient
-1/8 tsp of kmeta
Sugar was added to bring both to 1.090 sg. I used 1 packet of Lalvin 71B-1122 per bucket. This was started on 10-6-11. I transferred to carboy at 1.020 sg.
-11/12/11 was first rack with sg 1.000
-12/14/11 was the second rack with sg 1.000 at which time I added 3 tsp of sorbate, 1/4 tsp kmeta and 1 tsp tannin.
-12/17/11 I added 12 pound fpac with 2 tsp acid blend and back sweetened to sg 1.010. TA was only .45 which I know is a little low. Used strips for ph and could not get a consistent reading.
-1/30/12 racked and bottled. All the bottles have refermented. Tasted awesome prior to bottling.
Did I rush this to the bottle?
-34 # of berries split in two buckets, each bucket had:
-1.5 tsp of pectic enzyme
-1.5 tsp yeast nutrient
-1/8 tsp of kmeta
Sugar was added to bring both to 1.090 sg. I used 1 packet of Lalvin 71B-1122 per bucket. This was started on 10-6-11. I transferred to carboy at 1.020 sg.
-11/12/11 was first rack with sg 1.000
-12/14/11 was the second rack with sg 1.000 at which time I added 3 tsp of sorbate, 1/4 tsp kmeta and 1 tsp tannin.
-12/17/11 I added 12 pound fpac with 2 tsp acid blend and back sweetened to sg 1.010. TA was only .45 which I know is a little low. Used strips for ph and could not get a consistent reading.
-1/30/12 racked and bottled. All the bottles have refermented. Tasted awesome prior to bottling.
Did I rush this to the bottle?