My problem is simply this, my boyfriend is in NY hospital after a car accident. His grape order came in last saturday. Me and my siter crushed/destemmed the batch with this machine I gave him for his birthday, and put it in the fermentors yesterday. Today still at 61F. I can't fly up to get him down since this hurricane Jeanne closed Tampa airport untill tomorrow. I know how much this grape/wine thingy means to him. We checked and adjusted the TA, that was simply enough. But we have problem with the So2, sulfur. I tried a whole kit of Titrets. Every time we tried to do what it said, we get nowhere. Inserting the titret and pushing down on the bar the whole thing just sucks up whaterwer it can. Somehow I just can't get it to suck up just a little bit of the wine at the time... Obviously we are doing something wrong. I hate to leave without having controlled the Sulfure. My siter will pitch yeast whenever the temp have reached 70f.
I have been helping making wine with my friend for the past few years and really like the process/result but have much to learn. If anyone could help me figure this sulfure kit thingy out I would be very grateful. They claim the airport is open tomorrow at 11am. I like to have this Sulfure done by then. Or I just will go for 1 tablet/5 gal?!! (TabletsÊmden)
Sherri,