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Default Potassium Sorbate

Ray Bowler > wrote in news:rbowler-8DC580.15235310072013
@netnews.mchsi.com:

> I have started a rhubarb wine. I accidentally dumped some Potasium
> Sorbate Into it at the same time I added the yeast. Since the Potassium
> Sorbate keeps fermentation from starting is there any eay to get
> fermentation going?


Make a starter culture of the same yeast in sugar-water, and wait until that's fermenting
vigorously -- a couple of days, probably. Add that to your wine, and it MIGHT work.