Cranberry wine not fermenting....help


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Question on Wine storage 258
A bit OT Ah -- the floor of the cellar was not a dirt one but part "concrete" and part ancient stone slabs...

Yeah, you added 1 tsp os acid in addition to 2.5 lbs of cranberries per gallon? I think your acid level is way high. while yeast can survive at low pHs, their activity is inhibited. So the fermentation may be proceeding but it may be imperceptably slow. The cranberries available in the store are going to be a lot higher in acid than those you pick fresh too.

To can get calcium carbonate from a wine making store. The carbonate (which chemically is CO3) will combine with 2 equilivants of acid to produce a non acidic salt (for cranberry it would be calcium citrate and calcium malate) and carbon dioxide. If you cannot get that, go to the grocery store and get some calcium hydroxide, it is sold as pickling lime. It will produce the same salts plus water. In a pinch you could add sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), but that will add sodium to your wine.

stopping fermentationwine stabilizer
I am going to try a quick way of making of lightly carbonated apple cider and I have a question about adding wine stabilizer...

there is nothign wrong with fermentin low pH-high acid wines. It is just that the fermentation tends to be slow and may stick. Even then in the end you may not be able to drink the resulting wine because of its acidity. Taste the must now. If it tastes more tart than grape juice that is an indicator of a high amount of acid (that is no subsbreastute for a pH meter and a acid test kit).

Anyway, a pinch of carbonate-hydroxide-bicarbonate may be just what you need. If you take too much acid out you can always add some back at bottling. just use a tiny bit though, no more than a tsp.

 


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