{"id":294,"date":"2008-10-18T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:53:50","slug":"checking-the-mlf-initiation-on-merlot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2008\/10\/18\/checking-the-mlf-initiation-on-merlot\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking the MLF Initiation on Merlot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-295  aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" title=\"lactic acid test\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lactic-acid-test.JPG\" alt=\"lactic acid test\" width=\"471\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lactic-acid-test.JPG 640w, http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lactic-acid-test-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/>I gave the merlots a stir to mix up the oak and give the <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-bacteria-mlb\/\">malolactic bacteria<\/a> a little oxygenation to make them happy, then took a sample to check on the strip tests for initiation of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">malolactic fermentation<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a given that there is already malic acid in the wine, so the first test is just to see if any lactic acid can be detected yet.\u00a0 These tests are not obvious to me, having not used them before, but it <em>looks <\/em>like there is a decent purple tint for the test for lot A, giving a reading of 40-80 mg\/L lactic acid.\u00a0 Lot B reading is much fainter, so if there is any lactic acid present, it\u2019s at 10 mg\/L or below.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll just see what it looks like next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave the merlots a stir to mix up the oak and give the malolactic bacteria a little oxygenation to make them happy, then took a sample to check on the strip tests for initiation of malolactic fermentation.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a given that there is already malic acid in the wine, so the first [&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\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}