Wednesday, April 23, 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.

No one enjoys the cleaning and sanitizing as it is taken to be boring. Individuals take for granted the role played by these procedures. It is never an easy task as it may have been termed to be. However, with its importance, the procedure cannot be left out.

The use of chemicals in this case are cannot be avoided. May it be at home wine making or in industrial processing. The article is giving vital information on the importance of these used chemicals. It also sheds light on which are the best and why they should be chosen over the rest.

The process of cleaning equipments using chemicals to reduce or prevent growth of spoilage organisms is sanitization. The organisms that grow in these apparatus include; bacteria, molds and yeasts. It is advisable to clean the equipment before sanitizing. This is to remove the visible residues.

There exist two preferred methods of removing dirt from equipments. When scrubbing the fermentor, a cleaning solution should be used. No much time is consumed but it has a defect as elbows gets greased. The other way is using a mixture of water and chemicals, the fermentor soaked, and given sometime 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.

Thorough cleaning of the equipments is followed by sanitizing. There is a variety of sanitizing chemicals namely; potassium metabisulfite, campden tablets as well as sodium metabisulfite and all these should be added to water to make a solution. The solution is then used to soak the equipments for around 5-30 minutes. Potassium bisulfite being a good preservative chemical is used in wines as well as cleaning bottles and corks.




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