WineNewbie
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I've seen this discussion before on the forum relating to kits, but my question is with scratch wines.
Is it best practice to always make a yeast starter when making scratch wines, or can you just sprinkle on top of must like the kits tell you to do? The reason I'm asking is, making a yeast starter is more time consuming and requires me being there for 12 hours adding must to the starter every 2 or 3 hours. With work and two young kids, time is precious!
So far, I've only done kits, but I recently bought a 2 gallon fermenter to start experimenting with some one-gallon scracth wines. Is it ok to sprinkle? Or will I have trouble getting fermentation going without a starter?
John
Is it best practice to always make a yeast starter when making scratch wines, or can you just sprinkle on top of must like the kits tell you to do? The reason I'm asking is, making a yeast starter is more time consuming and requires me being there for 12 hours adding must to the starter every 2 or 3 hours. With work and two young kids, time is precious!
So far, I've only done kits, but I recently bought a 2 gallon fermenter to start experimenting with some one-gallon scracth wines. Is it ok to sprinkle? Or will I have trouble getting fermentation going without a starter?
John