Wine Makers
In one of my wine making recipe book's it calls for adding an anti-oxidant at bottling. { This is a recipe for making Apple Wine } What is this stuff called on the market and do I need to use it ??. I have never used it before.
Moe
I suspect that book is calling for citric acid, rather than suphur dioxide.
You've noticed how an apple turns brown when cut open and exposed to air? Apple wine will tend to do the same, but it can be prevented by using citric acid, aka vitamin C.
But using SO2, as JDixon suggests, is a good idea with any wine.
vince norris
Um, vitamin C is ascorbic acid, not citric acid. And Ascorbic acid, when not in the presence of another anti-oxidant like SO2, acts as a REALLY strong oxidant. Be wary.
Dave
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I find this from Kamil Juices, one of whose wines I am just finishing:
"Stabilize the wine using the stabilizer (80% potassium metabisulphite and 20% ascorbic acid (a.k.a Vit C)). A dosage of one level teaspoon of stabilizer (dissolved in 90ml (3 oz.) of hot water) per 5 gallons of wine is used."
I think this comes out to about 1.8 grams of KMBS and .5 grams of ascorbic acid.
In another place they say "NEVER add potassium sorbate.".
I have not added their "stabilizer" yet and probably will not do so because of your comment and others. I wonder why they would say this. Any ideas? I will ask them too.
art
OOOOPS! My senility is acting up again!
I never heard that!
What, then, would you recommend? Not ever using VitaminC, unless you've added no SO2 at all?
vince norris
OOOPS Again! I just realized I seriously misread that, so please disregard my previous post.
Eyesight's going too, I guess.
vince norris
I wouldn't use it as a matter of course, but if you've got aseptic levels of SO2, you should be fine to add it if you want. What I was trying to say above is that ascorbic WITHOUT SO2 is instant death, not ascorbic WITH SO2.
Dave
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