I think both groups bought the same malolactic bacteria - Enoferm B - and I'm going to forge on here with that assumption.
The 2.5 g package of EB is good for 66 gallons of wine. We have 21 gallons of Primitivo and 18 gallons of the Merlot / Cab / P. Verdot, so we can use a single package if we're going to work the two wines at the same time.
EB wants to be hydrated in 20 times it's own weight of 20 C chlorine-free water for not more than 15 minutes. 2.5 g package of EB, 50 g water, 50 g water = just a tad over 1/4 cup. So, dump the packet in 1/4 C room temp distilled water and set the timer for 12 minutes.
We're also going to use Optimalo Plus as a nutrient for the malolactic bugs. 1 g per gallon, dissolved in just enough water or wine, and then added and stirred into the body of the wine prior to adding the malolactic bugs. So, use a wine thief to draw off some wine from each vessel, weigh & add proper amount of Optimalo, swish-wait-dump-stir. The Optimalo comes in 6 g packages, so for the 5 gallon carboys we can weigh out the 5 g or eyeball it - you're call.
By the time we've added all of the nutrients we should be ready to add the bugs. Let's use a rule of 1 ml of hydrated bug juice per gallon of wine. I'm basing this on our 1/4 cup = 2 oz = +59 ml for 66 gallons, round it off to 1 ml per gallon and round that to 5 ml per carboy = 1 tsp bug juice. Jah? So add 1 tsp bug juice to the 5 gallon carboys that already have nutrients added, stir, cap, relax.
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