{"id":304,"date":"2008-10-25T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-07-09T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T23:42:42","slug":"merlot-mlf-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2008\/10\/25\/merlot-mlf-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlot MLF Continues \u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" title=\"malic test\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/malic-test.jpg\" alt=\"malic test\" width=\"212\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/malic-test.jpg 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/malic-test-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claassen.net\/gallery2\/v\/us\/Hobbies\/brewing\/wineequipment\/IMG_0019_001.JPG.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/wine-thief-thief\/\">thief<\/a> out a little taste of each merlot before giving them a stir and testing for malic acid levels this time.\u00a0 They are both quite acidic and kinda harsh, but seem to be taking on some oakiness from the cubes I tossed in.\u00a0 Both lots were at max malic acid levels, &gt;500 mg\/L by the strip test.\u00a0 I retested lot A only for lactic acid, it had not changed;\u00a0 I didn\u2019t retest lot B so I wouldn\u2019t needlessly use up the strip tests, since they\u2019re not cheap.\u00a0 It\u2019s only week 2, so I guess more waiting as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to thief out a little taste of each merlot before giving them a stir and testing for malic acid levels this time.\u00a0 They are both quite acidic and kinda harsh, but seem to be taking on some oakiness from the cubes I tossed in.\u00a0 Both lots were at max malic acid levels, &gt;500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,4,40,32,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}