Friday, September 3, 2010

Still going..

Took a look this morning and the cap on the flextank was even higher than yesterday. It's now slightly above the rim. I need to eat an energy bar or something before the next punch down of that beast.

I did a hydrometer reading on the Sangiovese and it's now at 13 brix so moving along nicely. Since the ferment is so vigorous on everything I'm going to skip the fermaid-k on the rest of the vats under the less is more assumption. Besides, the brix was pretty low on everything so there shouldn't be any danger of a stuck fermentation anywhere. The Sangiovese is tasting nice.

Now it's time to start thinking about the plan for secondary fermentation. I've got a bunch of co2 cartridges so I suppose I could keep everything properly gassed but the surface area of the brute containers has me worried and thinking that I should probably do my secondary in carboys for the Barbera. The Sangiovese will be fine in the Pod and the Flextank should be fine for secondary. I'm thinking I don't have enough carboys now. So back to EC Kraus, where the free shipping usually pays off for orders like that. I'll also check Morewine to see if they've got a better deal.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Jay, I'll be glad to participate a bit with you if it can help. Let me know. Sort of a donation to the next "Depletion wine party" ;-)

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