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- Room 74, must 72, Brix 22.
- Very effervescent, fermentation has taken hold. So many bubbles in the juice that it pushed the hydrometer up above 25! I had to shake the sample for a while to deaden it, and the reading went to 22.5. I double checked with the refractometer and got 22.
- Changed ice - am now using bagged cubes and ice packs together - will add more in a few hours. Will need to start buying bags of ice to keep up, I think. Temp will be critical by next measure. And it's going to be warm today - around 80: cellar might go to 76.
- Room 74, must 72, Brix +20.
- Fermentation is starting to sizzle but temp is not. All of the morning ice was melted: replaced it with 2 1-quart blocks of ice. Time to ask the team to freeze water-balloons.
- Room 75, must 72, Brix 18.
- Ferm is rocking. The 2 PM ice is melted and we've replaced it again. Down 4 Brix in 16 hours. Whoa, Nelly.
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