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, >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":"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, >500 […]<\/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}]}}