Have 6 gallons of local grape wine I want to sorbate but have never
monkeyed with this stuff before. Potassium Sorbate, bottle says 1/2
tsp/gal. Is this the normal amount to use or has expierience taught
anyone otherwise? Will it affect taste? Basically this wine is at 6
months of secondary & is still working slightly & I want to kill the
yeast for bottling. Thanks in advance.

On Jul 4, 12:47 pm, wrote:
> Will it affect taste?

Yes. Although the degree to which it does is subjective.

> .. this wine is ...still working slightly & I want to kill the
> yeast for bottling.

Adding sorbate will not stop an active fermentation. It will only stop
a renewed fermentation from starting. Worse yet, adding sorbate may
slow down the fermentation and make it go on much longer. I stopped
using the stuff entirely.

Greg

wrote:

> Have 6 gallons of local grape wine I want to sorbate but have never
> monkeyed with this stuff before. Potassium Sorbate, bottle says 1/2
> tsp/gal. Is this the normal amount to use or has expierience taught
> anyone otherwise? Will it affect taste? Basically this wine is at 6
> months of secondary & is still working slightly & I want to kill the
> yeast for bottling. Thanks in advance.
>
It tends to give a bubblegum aroma. I do not recomend using it. Better
to use filtration if possible, and heat sterilise your filling
equipment, if possible. I know that this is hard for a lot of home
winemakers, but is definitely the way to go, if you can do it.


James.

Question - why do you want to stop fermentation? Is it because you are
in a hurry to bottle? If so, I'd advise against it - let the wine
ferment dry, settle, KMS, then bottle.

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cast.net wrote:

> Have 6 gallons of local grape wine I want to sorbate but have never
> monkeyed with this stuff before. Potassium Sorbate, bottle says 1/2
> tsp/gal. Is this the normal amount to use or has expierience taught
> anyone otherwise? Will it affect taste? Basically this wine is at 6
> months of secondary & is still working slightly & I want to kill
> theyeast for bottling. Thanks in advance.
>
>

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I'm using an evaluation license of nemo since 41 days.
You should really try it!
http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo

KMS?

Crude and misleading shorthand for potassium metabisulfite.




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> KMS?
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>

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I'm using an evaluation license of nemo since 42 days.
You should really try it!
http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo

"AxisOfBeagles" > wrote in message
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> Crude and misleading shorthand for potassium metabisulfite.


Ahhh thanks :-)

Have one of those vinbrite filter systems & seems that even using the
5 micron filters doesn't completely get all the yeast. Thanks for the
input, people, I'm trashin' the sorbates & biding my time till the
bubbler stops bubbling. Thanks again.