Partial MLF

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20 years ago

Thu, Sep 18, 2003 8:53 PM

There have been a few postings about inducing MLF in apple wine. A "partial" MLF was recommended so as not to obliterate the apple character completely. I would like to try this as an experiment. How would you do a partial MLF? I have the MLF culture, do I just take some of the wine out from the bulk and do MLF on that? What percentage of the wine should I use? Thanks for any tips

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20 years ago

Fri, Sep 19, 2003 11:02 AM

Actually, it's so as not to eat up all the acid (which is predominantly malic in apples).

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and scroll down to "MLF schedules".

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20 years ago

Tue, Sep 23, 2003 4:32 AM

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20 years ago

Tue, Sep 23, 2003 10:45 PM

Oh, I agree. But even you are saying that this is *because* of the loss in malic acid. You state the consequence, I state the cause.

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20 years ago

Thu, Sep 25, 2003 6:50 AM

Thanks for the tips guys, I am in the UK. Does anyone know if lysozyme is available over here? For the small amount of wine I make a sterile filter system is not worth the expense.

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