6:00 Room 71.5. It's been warm the last few days and the room last night was the highest it's been since we started. Today and tomorrow are forecast to be very warm, but then sharply cooler Monday (by which time we'll have moved the wine.) With the warmth of the last few days and the fact that there was too much garbage to put out this past Tuesday, the remaining bags of skins - out for collection this morning - are fruit-fly heaven on the curb. They're fermenting in the bags - which had swollen to near bursting before I punctured them last night.
Muscat 1, 71 F and 4.9 Brix on the short scale hydrometer. A little below room temp, and I did put new icepacks in to try to keep it that way.
Muscat 2, 79.5 F. First time it's been below 80 F in 72 hours. Tasting a little astringent and asking, Why are you doing this to me, Mister?
14:00: Racked & rocked. My afternoon meetings were cancelled at work and I rushed home to work the Muscat 1. Easily drained the poly into three 5 gallon carboys and one 1 gallon jug. (Was actually just a cup or so shy of 16 gallons, and so topped the jug with a bit of the 2010 Muscat production.) Looks good, kids. No extraneous skins or pips, and while it was the typical veggie juice consistency there was not much in the way of yeast mud.
The carboys are very happening. Foam is getting up into the airlocks. When they are a little calmer maybe we'll top them a bit more.
Tomorrow we press the experimental Muscat 2.
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