malolactic

Pressed my Cab sauv. batch 5 days ago. Did a tranfer off gross lees 2 days later and added Opti-malo nutrients and pitched some enoferm Beta Malo into each carboy. Been watching the airlocks and not seeing any activitiy. Is this normal? How long does it nomally take for Enoferm Beta to take...

(Hi. Just joined. Hope this is a good sub-forum to post in). I made a starter for my malolactic bacteria, and the smell I get from it is that of sour beer. Lactic acid is the main acid in sour beer, so that makes sense, but the few things I see around the internet are that the starter should...

Hey all, love the great tips on here. Could use some help of my own. I pressed my Cab. Two days later, I carefully racked my carboys to the neck and I began MLF that day. it’s been just over 2 weeks since MLF has visibly been going on but some heavy sediment has accumulated...should I rack...

I read if you put a wine with citrus acid through MLF it will produce acidic acid and taste like vinegar. I did a 2nd run wine through some merlot skins and used water and grape concentrate to do it and I’m talking about standard frozen grocery store grape juice concentrate not a wine specific...

My merlot got a sign of infection during MLF, so I racked and added sulfite. The MLF was only half way done when the infection occurred. I’m wondering if I can wait for sulfite to go down and restart MLF again. If not, can you advise in what to do as merlot is still pretty tart. Thanks!

If you have to choose 1 malolactic bacteria strain to take up resident inside your only oak barrel, what strain would that be?

I had a question about MLF. After a week of fermenting 100 lbs of merlot grapes with EC-1118, I pressed my grapes on Friday and racked off the gross lees on Sunday. I have not added any sulfites since the crush. When I racked on Sunday, I had to top off with a similar store bought wine. 3...

A small pack of malolactic bacteria averages $10 in the brew shops. They say it takes a packet for each 6 gallons. That gets expensive when you have eight carboys needing some help. Is it possible to stretch one packet for all eight carboys by starting it in one and transferring portions...