Have 6 gallons of local grape wine I want to sorbate but have never monkeyed with this stuff before. Potassium Sorbate, bottle says 1/2 tsp/gal. Is this the normal amount to use or has expierience taught anyone otherwise? Will it affect taste? Basically this wine is at 6 months of secondary & is still working slightly & I want to kill the yeast for bottling. Thanks in advance.
sorbates
Jul 04, 2007
6 Replies
Yes. Although the degree to which it does is subjective.
Adding sorbate will not stop an active fermentation. It will only stop a renewed fermentation from starting. Worse yet, adding sorbate may slow down the fermentation and make it go on much longer. I stopped using the stuff entirely.
Greg
It tends to give a bubblegum aroma. I do not recomend using it. Better to use filtration if possible, and heat sterilise your filling equipment, if possible. I know that this is hard for a lot of home winemakers, but is definitely the way to go, if you can do it.
James.
Crude and misleading shorthand for potassium metabisulfite.
Ahhh thanks :-)
Have one of those vinbrite filter systems & seems that even using the
5 micron filters doesn't completely get all the yeast. Thanks for the input, people, I'm trashin' the sorbates & biding my time till the bubbler stops bubbling. Thanks again.Join the Discussion
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