lundi 23 juin 2014

How To Ensure Proper Winery Sanitation

By Sherry Gross


Many people are actually considering delving into the world of homemade winemaking. While there are those people who are into producing their home made wine and have stayed in this business for a long time, there are those people who are still at the experimenting stage. Being involved in winemaking is actually a good thing.

It does not matter whether you are still an amateur at this world or if you are already established. You have to make sure that you are paying attention to the issue of winery sanitation. This is a common issue to consider when you are in the winemaking industry, after all. The workplace should be a clean place for you to work in or you will suffer consequences.

You should already know by now that compromising the cleanliness of the work place for winemaking will pose a real threat to the success of your operations. First of all, it will really cause illness to the ones who drink your wine. That would be bad especially if you are marketing the homemade wine because it can lead to lawsuits.

Causing illness to those who drink the wine is not the only consequence you will face. There are times when not being concerned with the cleanliness of the work area will lead to the ruin of a whole batch of wine. You will also end up compromising the flavor or the body of the wine you are making. You have to avoid these as much as you can.

To prevent these consequences from happening, it is highly advised for a person to follow the proper procedures for cleaning the work area. Know how to keep the work area clean and so these procedures and tips will be of great help to you. Here are several procedures or tips you can use to keep your work area clean.

First, you should consider using cleaning products that are appropriate to prevent your wine from getting ruined. You do not need to worry about the product being complicated or harmful to use or being expensive to purchase. Just purchase the cheapest one as long as it can really provide you with a good clean.

To buy the best quality of cleaning product, you just have to go to the winemaking supply store or the local hardware shop. You can see rows of cleaning products being displayed there. Do not be confused with that. All you need to do is to make sure that your cleaning product has Potassium metabisulfite. This is essential to cleaning the work place.

When using the cleaning agent, it is advisable for you to use it while you are still making the wines. You should not wait after the wine is already produced before you use the cleaning agent. When using the cleaning agent, you better put four tablespoons into one gallon of water. This should be potent enough to use.

Aside from the wine, you can also use the said cleaning agent to sanitize the work surfaces or any other parts of your winemaking equipment. You just have to use the mixture ratio and then put it into the spray bottle. You can get the best cleaning solution with that.




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