After bottling the ’11 syrah, we checked the ’12’s. We sulphited and topped them off.
Started at 9 AM, finished up around 1PM.
The enolmatic worked fine. No foaming issues…I kept the speed slow.
I flushed the bottles with N2 before filling. Used up about half a 20 ft^3 tank. I will need a larger tank for the big barrels.
The actual bottling took less than an hour. Prep and cleanup took the rest of the time.
I sanitized with Starsan. It foamed of course, but rinsed out nicely. Afterward, I ran Proxycarb through it, and let it sit for a few minutes, then Starsan again, and finally fresh water.
We put a citric/SO2 solution into the empty barrel.
We have drank most of the previous 15 gallons…need to bottle the 60!
Sampled the 60 gallon barrel for SO2 testing.
Plan is to use new Enolmatic bottler + N2 bottle flushing to bottle the 15 gallon syrah barrel first. We will see how that goes before moving onto the zin!
Sampled the 15 and 30 gallon barrels for SO2 testing.
Plan is to use new Enolmatic bottler + N2 bottle flushing to bottle the 15 gallon barrel first. We will see how that goes before moving onto the 30 gallon barrel!