الاثنين، 21 أبريل 2014

Wine Making Sanitizer And Its Importance

By Essie Osborn


Making of wine can be very interesting. This happens if one is involved with friends. Being involved in this procedure makes you unique as you doing something none of them is into. Identity is given to individuals who get themselves in this duty. When friends meet to drink, mostly they discuss the wine making processes. Like any other production, there are ingredients involved which include; yeast, malo-lactic and a variety of grapes. People keep forgetting the one most important procedure in this process. Wine making sanitizer. Information about it should be shared as it comes out to be a very vital step to wine making.

Sanitizing and cleaning can be the most boring part in this process. People fail to understand that it is the most important part of wine-making. Sanitizing is a bit of work but one should have in mind that it is an essential part that should be undertaken as far as quality is concerned.

Chemicals are used either in industrial environment or in home wine making where our interest lies on. This article tries to give informative information on the advantages and disadvantages of these chemicals and the best used in the market to interested individuals.

Sanitization is the process of using chemicals to clean the equipments used in fermenting. The chemicals prevent the existence of spoilage organisms. These organisms are; molds as well as bacteria which if left untreated can cause harm to persons using the product. Cleaning should first take place before thinking of sanitizing. All this is done to remove residues which are visible.

There are two effective methods of cleaning equipments. The use of a cleaning solution to scrub the fermentor is used. Less time is consumed, however, an individual gets his/her elbows greased. Another way is by using chemical and water where the fermentor is soaked and waited to clean.

A combination of the two methods is the ideal bet as time used to wait the chemical clean is reduced and also the much scrubbing is no more. The equipment can be soaked for about 20 minutes as a cleaning solution is added. Thereafter, slight scrubbing is required to ensure all the residues are done away with.

With the current technological advances, there has been introduction of cleaning chemical known as percarbonates. It is a mixture of both sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide. It has some secret ingredients which makes it better than others. The chemicals stand a higher chance of removing dirt from equipments and is certain to work. Sanitation is made possible by inclusion of hydrogen peroxide. The percarbonates are environment friendly hence preferred over the others.

After the cleaning part is over, sanitizing comes. The sanitizers which include; campden tablets, sodium metabisulfite, and potassium metabisulfite are added to water. The solution made is then used to soak the equipment for around 5-30 minutes. Once done with the cleaning, it is recommendable to use potassium bisulfite for sanitizing the corks and bottles. This is because they are in long contact with wine and still potassium bisulfite is good for preservation purposes if used properly. It should be noted that in order to get positive results in this process, the equipments must be cleaned well first.




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