{"id":311,"date":"2008-11-02T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2012-07-01T06:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T14:37:28","slug":"i-dont-think-mlf-is-working-at-least-the-cab-is-working-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2008\/11\/02\/i-dont-think-mlf-is-working-at-least-the-cab-is-working-out\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Think MLF Is Working  \u2026 At Least the Cab is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 3 of <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">malolactic fermentation<\/a>, and malic acid levels are not going down.\u00a0 I\u2019m a bit nervous about not <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">sulfiting<\/a> the wines at this point, and it is possible that <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/malolactic-fermentation-mlf-malo\/\">MLF<\/a> might not complete in these wines anyway.\u00a0 I poked around the internet and decided it was not worth risking, so I added \u00bc tsp <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/so2-kmeta-sulfite-metabisuphite-potassium-metabisulphite\/\">Kmeta<\/a> to each carboy after <a href=\"\/index.php\/winemaking-definitions\/rack-racking\/\">racking<\/a> them into clean carboys.\u00a0 Lot A went down to a 5 gallon carboy, but I recovered more of lot B and so kept that at 6 gallons and topped with the little bit extra lot A that I had.\u00a0 Lot A is definitely starting to mellow out, with good toastiness.\u00a0 Lot B is actually quite sweet, much more fruit-forward with interesting strawberry notes.\u00a0 I left the same oak cubes in both of them, rinsing them a little after dumping out of the original carboy then transferring them into the new carboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 3 of malolactic fermentation, and malic acid levels are not going down.\u00a0 I\u2019m a bit nervous about not sulfiting the wines at this point, and it is possible that MLF might not complete in these wines anyway.\u00a0 I poked around the internet and decided it was not worth risking, so I added \u00bc tsp [&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":[42,28,33,4,40,32,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}