Welch's White Grape Peach in Primary

[smokegrub]

I have 5 1/2 gallons in the primary [11 cans concentrate + 2 (15 oz) cans peach slices in heavy syrup). Must smells great. Will post additional information as this progresses.

 

[smokegrub]

This is really weird...the fermentation started off great and now, a few hours later, it appears to have quit! I will wait overnight and, if it doesn't crank back up, I will acclimate a yeast to progressively increasing concentrations of the must, and see if I can get it restarted. The yeast I used was Montrachet.

 

[JWMINNESOTA]

You may want to check the peaches in heavy syrup you used, make sure there are no preservatives in those cans. If so, that is your problem, renders the yeast ineffective.

 

[smokegrub]

The peach can says water, corn syrup, sugar and peaches--no preservatives are mentioned. What is doubly weird is that it now seems to be starting fermenting again! Boy, does it smell great!

 

[scotty]

The peach can says water, corn syrup, sugar and peaches--no preservatives are mentioned. What is doubly weird is that it now seems to be starting fermenting again! Boy, does it smell great!

Maybe the sugar level was too much for the yeast at first but it eventually acclimated.

 

[smokegrub]

Racked into a secondary on 5/6/07. The SG was approximately 0.992 and the wine tastes like firewater. The wine is strating to clear. I will rack again in approximately 30 days. I plan to sweeten to taste after adding the kmeta and sorbate. Does anyone have any experience with adding L.D. Carlson's Peach Flavoring to a peach wine? i am considering adding a 4 oz. bottle to the 5 gallons as I sweeten it. I will, of course, test the flavoring and sugar addition in a small volume before committing the entire batch.

 

[scotty]

My only experience was addind 2 ounces of raspberry extract to 5 gallons and i think it was too much. perhaps try experimenting in a small graduated cylinder with a graduated dropper before doing the whole batch.
My mistake was thinking that such a small amount would not have very much effect on 5 gallons.
I have the graduated cylinders and dropper that i purchased just for such experimenting but i got too much in a hurry.((bad move for me ))Edited by: scotty