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Jim Hall Jim Hall is offline
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Default Pre-ferment jitters - added more Tartaric.

I assume you're planning to put wine through Malolactic fermentation also to
stabilize wine and help bring TA back down..

"Jim Hall" > wrote in message
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> Sounds like a reasonable approach to me.. How many gms or ozs of Tartaric
> acid did you actually add the second time..?
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> "David" > wrote in message
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> > I went ahead and have added more tartaric acid. From my calculations,
> > the must should now be around pH 3.66 or so, with about TA .77%-.8%.
> > I'm not worried about the TA, as I can always cold stabilize it later
> > on if I want to drop the acidity. The major thing was to have pH lower
> > than the 3.95 it actually started off at (blast that cold soak!).
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> > David
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