Hi home brewers,
Started this wine yesterday (26th August) and pitched yeast yesterday at around 9am. I rehydrated the yeast in water about 26degrees as ambient temps were around that in my flat (this heat has been too much - it was 32 in the sun with high humidity) as was the water, drawn the night before standing at 15 litres. I calculated the remaining plus any rinse water from the weight of the pack.
Sadly I managed to spill about 50cl of concentrate when attempting to open the cap (note to newcomers to this range - they just pop off with appropriate pulling force so prepare the recoil) but after taking a hydro reading I measured 1.082 which is within range for the kit (whew)
Its now been going well since about 20 hours after pitching when the yeast poked up. Will let you know how the wine develops through secondary and degassing, plus campden additions.
I had a sneaky taste with the hydro reading, the cab sauv grape concentrate is lovely! I'd just drunk some vitafit grape juice fron lidl the night before and despite its qualities as a drinking juice, the flavour of the cab sauv far surpasses the store bought juice. Just so you know, these packs have been made well - at least from my humble opinion at the start.
Updates to follow but - slowly, slowly ' as wine making often is
Started this wine yesterday (26th August) and pitched yeast yesterday at around 9am. I rehydrated the yeast in water about 26degrees as ambient temps were around that in my flat (this heat has been too much - it was 32 in the sun with high humidity) as was the water, drawn the night before standing at 15 litres. I calculated the remaining plus any rinse water from the weight of the pack.
Sadly I managed to spill about 50cl of concentrate when attempting to open the cap (note to newcomers to this range - they just pop off with appropriate pulling force so prepare the recoil) but after taking a hydro reading I measured 1.082 which is within range for the kit (whew)
Its now been going well since about 20 hours after pitching when the yeast poked up. Will let you know how the wine develops through secondary and degassing, plus campden additions.
I had a sneaky taste with the hydro reading, the cab sauv grape concentrate is lovely! I'd just drunk some vitafit grape juice fron lidl the night before and despite its qualities as a drinking juice, the flavour of the cab sauv far surpasses the store bought juice. Just so you know, these packs have been made well - at least from my humble opinion at the start.
Updates to follow but - slowly, slowly ' as wine making often is
