(1) Sep 25: M&S to market, purchased 8 42 # lugs Muscat Alexandria at $40 per. Brix between 21 and 21.5, acid at 7.5, cellar temp 76 F. P to house, worked with L to set up gear. Destemmed and pressed, 60 liters of juice in a 100 liter poly tank, 72 F. Pitched 3 x 1.5 g in 3/4 c warm water at 3:45 PM. By 11 PM must raised to 74 F.
(2) Sep. 26: 8 AM room 74 F, must 75 F, added ice packs to juice. 2:30 PM must at 75 F and Brix down to 15! WTF! Going much faster than wanted. More ice packs added. 8 PM down to 12.5 Brix, best laid plans have gone astray. Outdoor temps are cooler, and am really thinking about trying to bring the tank outside.
(3) Sep 27: 5 AM, room 71 F, must 74 F, 8 Brix. More ice, fans. 3 PM room 72 F, must 75, ice.
(4) Sep 28: 5:45 AM room 72 F, must 76 F, 4 Brix, switch to short scale hydrometer. Fermentation still very active, very yeasty. 9:30 PM room 72 F, must 75 F, 1,5 Brix. At this point I'm noticing how much skin is in the tank and vowing to not repeat this (at least not by accident) in 2011. Ferment less active, less yeasty.
(5) Sep 29: 5:30 AM, room 72 F, must 73 F, 0.2 Brix. Lots of CO2, same milky yellow as 2009. 8 PM, room 72 F, must 72 F, -1 Brix. L and S transferred juice to carboys: 5 + 5 + 3 +1. NB: the poly was too heavy to lift into a good siphoning position, and the spigot too large for a hose, so the first 5 g cb was pailed from the poly to into a funnel - lots of air.
So, 2010 was super-fast.
The hope for 2011 is to keep it cooler and slower, and to do the primary ferm in carboys with much less airspace than the poly tank, in hopes of keeping more of the nose.
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