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| San Jamar Rapi-Kool Cold Paddle |
Muscat 1 rose nearly 5 degrees and is now warmer than the celler. 72 F and 20 Brix. Now it's sounding like it's in full gear. Changed the ice (I never did say what we're using instead of water ballons: why, it's the San Jamar Rapi-Kool!) and also added a chemical ice pack in a sealed, meta'd bag.
Muscat 2 is also in real ferment now, not yet a cap but enough juice has been released so that it can be punched a bit. Still no real plan, but it does seem that we'll get a usable amount of juice this way.
18:00: Hot damn! Room 73 F or just a tad below. Muscat 1 74 F and 17 Brix. Need to hit the brakes! Anticipating this from last year's numbers I bought a couple more cold paddles on the way home - not that we have the freezer space for them. (They are getting to recognize me at the restaurant supply place and gave me the 15% discount for non-civilians.) Even getting the paddles fridge-cool will be a big help. So the one paddle and one ice pack in Muscat 1 from this morning came out, replaced by 1 frozen paddle and 2 ice packs. Will hopefully add a fridge-cooled paddle before bed-time, and in the morning there will be two frozen paddles to put in. We need more cool!
FYI, we're about 50 hours into the process. Last year at this time we were at 72 F and 18 Brix. By the next morning we were at 74 F and 16 Brix.
Muscat 2 is at 70.5 F and developing a nice, whole grape ferm. Punching down you can now get to the bottom of the tank, so lots of juice is letting loose. Smells! Tomorrow it will be easy enough to fill the hydrometer tube and we'll get a Brix reading. We'll want to pull the juice pretty soon, or we'll be in uncharted territory - past Orange and into the unknown.
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