Friday, June 27, 2014

Essential Tips For Better 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.

Regardless of whether you are already in this business for a long time or you are still experimenting, you should know that there is a main issue of concern you have to pay attention to. That issue is the winery sanitation. You have to make sure that you are working in an area where cleanliness is maintained. Otherwise, you will suffer some consequences.

Never compromise the cleanliness of your work area because that will just pose a very real threat to your success in winemaking. One of those threats is that you will just cause diseases or illnesses to those people who drink the wine you produce. If this happens, it will not only affect your reputation but you might get served a lawsuit as well.

Another issue that you will most likely deal with when you do not pay attention to this is that you might ruin the entire batch of wine you are making. It will just compromise the flavor as well as the body of the wine. You have to make sure that you are cleaning the work place properly to avoid these consequences.

In order for you to prevent all of these consequences, then you better go ahead and look for the proper tips or procedures you can follow to ensure the cleanliness of the workplace. You should not find it difficult to maintain the cleanliness of the place just as long as you follow the tips or the procedures. Here are the tips you can follow for that.

First, you better look for the best cleaning products that you can use for the said cleaning task. You do not have to worry about buying the most expensive product or the product with the most cleaning agents. Even the simplest and cheapest cleaning product can be of use to you as long as you can be sure of its quality.

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.

You should not only focus on the wine. You should also consider using the cleaning agent on the work surface. You can just follow the appropriate mixture ratio and you can then add this into the spray bottle. Use the spray bottle to clean the workplace.




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