Originally posted by Richard S
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A couple of years ago I bought the above mentioned 1 gal kit rather cheap as it was about to go out of date.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 Muttering "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", in went the 1 yr out of date EC - 1118 yeast.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 Muttering "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", in went the 1 yr out of date EC - 1118 yeast.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.
Not sure where or how it would have oxidised though, maybe tiny amount of air permeable plastic for the concentrate ???
Either way, well done for getting somewhere with it. If it tastes half drinkable when it's done, it's not wasted is it......
regards
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