{"id":292,"date":"2008-10-11T09:56:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T16:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:19:05","slug":"malolactic-fermentation-on-merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2008\/10\/11\/malolactic-fermentation-on-merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"Malolactic Fermentation on Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something interesting happened, the 6 gallon carboy of lot B merlot blew its top overnight.\u00a0 I thought it was done fermenting \u2026. oh well.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be fine.\u00a0 A lot of solids also fell out overnight, so I <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racked<\/a> them both into clean carboys.\u00a0 Each carboy got a dose of White Labs <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-bacteria-mlb\/\">malolactic bacteria<\/a> WLP675 that had been equilibrated to room temperature.\u00a0 I did not add any nutrient, I wasn\u2019t sure if the White labs stuff needed it.\u00a0 I also added one ounce each of medium and heavy toast French oak cubes.\u00a0 Another variable that should make the final tasting of all 3 batches very interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something interesting happened, the 6 gallon carboy of lot B merlot blew its top overnight.\u00a0 I thought it was done fermenting \u2026. oh well.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be fine.\u00a0 A lot of solids also fell out overnight, so I racked them both into clean carboys.\u00a0 Each carboy got a dose of White Labs malolactic bacteria [&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\/292"}],"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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}