Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

[larlad]

I was wondering if it will hurt anything to wait 36hrs before adding yeast to my fruit must , as I started some last night but wont be able to be around to add the yeast for another 12 hrs at the least?

 

[djrockinsteve]

Keep it covered and maybe even a bit cool. I am presuming you added sulfite first. You should be fine especially if it was sulfited correctly.

 

[Tom]

Why not add it now?

 

[larlad]

Are you saying that I can add it 8 or 9 hrs early?

 

[Tom]

Did you sulfite it? Is the lid under airlock? if so lay the lid on top.
If so,
When did you sulfite it if it was last night add today

 

[larlad]

I added the pectic, acidblend , energizer, and campden 8:30pm last night. I just put the lid on loose , did not apply air lock

 

[larlad]

I saw some where that you could apply campden 12 hrs after the other ingredients, is that a truism ...

 

[Tom]

yes. add later today and you will be fine. keep the lid loose w/o airlock

 

[larlad]

Thanks Tom, I will do that. I had some frozen wild blue berries left from 08 vacum packed, 10lbs . So what the heck I thought I would try another 3 gal batch. I was rasing the sg to the 1.080 that you suggested I should have done for the last batch, only problem I was adding just a bit of sugar, stirring, waiting and then very carefully adding until I got there, I was almost there when I noticed the top of my hydrometer was broken in the wine thief. I was not able to test it again, I dont have a backup sg meter. I accounted for the pieces of glass, unless a couple of fragments the sized of a grain of sand escaped. I will filter it when I rack the wine with a funnel and #35 filter just to be sure, I saw something like that in a cataloge. It was a bummer, it was like the top of the hydrometer just wore out....I ordered one and it will be 3 or 4 days before I get it.

 

[Tom]

10# of berries will not make 3 gallons

 

[larlad]

I forget to tell you, the last SG reading I had looked to be 1.085, then 1.084 then 1.082. I think that is when the top of the sg meter was going bad and the darn paper inside was moving around...not sure, I hate to add more sugar as I think I am close. ...........I think in the future I might take a bit of the juice and warm it when adding suger ??? at any rate the amount of sugar I put it was about 2 1/8lbs per gal.

 

[larlad]

I pulled the must bag up and I have 31/2 gallons of liquid without squeezing the bag, about 4gal level in the fermenter. Are you saying I could add more? I have about 40 or 50 quarts in the freezer yet. I get a lot of juiced out of a quart. soooo shld I add more??

 

[Tom]

Always dissolve sugar before adding (heat water you dont need much)