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A couple of years ago I bought the above mentioned 1 gal kit rather cheap as it was about to go out of date. It went on a shelf and was forgotten about until recently.
A few days ago I dusted the kit down and decided to see if it was any good, I tipped the juice into a dj and not surprisingly it had oxidised quite badly. The juice was a very dark brown colour and smelt badly oxidised (like sherry), I added the other bits and pieces and topped it up to the required level with water. Muttering "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", in went the 1 yr out of date EC - 1118 yeast.
24 hrs later it was fermenting like mad and now, a few days down the line, the colour is more like what you would expect from a Chardonnay at this stage of fermentation. The oxidisation appears to have been driven off, I knew that fermentation would drive oxidisation off but wasn't expecting this level of response.
Success? watch this space.
A few days ago I dusted the kit down and decided to see if it was any good, I tipped the juice into a dj and not surprisingly it had oxidised quite badly. The juice was a very dark brown colour and smelt badly oxidised (like sherry), I added the other bits and pieces and topped it up to the required level with water. Muttering "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", in went the 1 yr out of date EC - 1118 yeast.
24 hrs later it was fermenting like mad and now, a few days down the line, the colour is more like what you would expect from a Chardonnay at this stage of fermentation. The oxidisation appears to have been driven off, I knew that fermentation would drive oxidisation off but wasn't expecting this level of response.
Success? watch this space.
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