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I’m curious. Why would you rinse the Kmeta solution out of the hoses before storing.

True but I’m still lifting a carboy. To me the All in One looks like a lot of hoses and gadgets that then need cleaning and sanitizing.

Seems I’m always siphoning into a bucket to degass or so I can reuse the carboy. Into a bucket clean and sanitize the carboy back into...

Can you use the all in one pump from carboy to a bucket and vice versa? Or does there need to be a vacuum on both ends?

Could this be an over abundance of tartaric acid?

Initially I started with a liquid bacteria that really did nothing. The weather was hot and the shipper didn’t cool pack it. I think the...

The reason for asking is this. I had a couple of fresh Barolo buckets that refused to convert. I took multiple chromatography tests with...

Will MLF work on fresh juice buckets?

I’ve never froze the juice but I have kept the skin packs in a freezer for 6-8 months.

Yeah mine are 60-65 F. I was thinking that might be too cold. Thanks for confirming it isn’t.

Yeah, that’s less than .5% starsan. I would challenge you to be able to detect it in your finished wine. I think you are OK.

is it more difficult to mix glycerine in cold wine?

Because I was topping up the carboy, I did not taste it. I put the airlock on and rolled it for storage.

3.31 before the StarSan addition. I didn’t take a reading after.

I always check the ph before using StarSan. This particular gallon batch was 1.92.