First time Peach wine ph question

[Tito]

Im starting my first peach wine. Have roughly 85 lbs of peaches and got about 5 gallon of juice out of them. Added sugar to get SG to 1.090 then was going to get PH squared away. All i have is the ph strips and original reading was around 4.0-4.1 . I added acid blend 1tsp at a time and was seeing very little change. I stopped at 6 tsp total and was going to check here in case i need to do make any more changes before pitching yeast tonight.

 

[djrockinsteve]

I never had success with the test strips. Way too variable. If the juice tastes good now you can adjust later a bit if need too. If too tart or blah now your pallet will let you know. Best to get a ph kit or better yet a ph tester and the solution for taking a ph test. More accurate.

 

[Tito]

I will get one soon hopefully. Not in the budget right now. I ended up adding 15 teaspoons total of acid blend to the mix and the ph looked to be right according to the strips.