Crush
I went out to pick. The grower helped me. He lent me some nice clippers…and warned me not to cut myself. No problem…I cut my finger badly. He fortunately had lots of band aids.
I was home by 8:30AM with ~150 lbs of grapes…6 5 gallon pails. The grower said that a 5 gallon pails weighs 25 pounds.
- De-stemmed and crushed into 20 gallon pail.
- Ended up with 15 gallons must.
- Sugars: 23 brix
- TA: 8 g/L
- Added 6g Kmeta (2g/5gallons * 15 gallons = 6g…from Jeff Cox book)
- Measured SO2 using titret 70 ppm
- Could easily taste the SO2 in the juice, but couldn’t smell it.
- By 10AM, pressed into 2 carboys, 2/3 full
- ~9 gallons juice
- Returned the rental equip to BevPeople
- 1PM: poured juice into full carboys to sit over night before adding yeast
- Lots of settling going on