Just a thought.
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Pickled_Pepper
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Actually a good idea. I wonder if it would have enough preservatives in it to keep everything quiet?
outstretched
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Preservatives don't stop fermentation. It stops the reproduction of the yeast. It would still ferment if you had a large enough colony to eat all the sugar without reproducing. If you put the keg in the fridge and keep it cold it wouldn't ferment either.
LeBreton
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Help? yes.
Help in a noticeable way? no.
Folks who have successfully fermented juice with preservatives mostly don't even report a lag time after pitching. Preservatives are meant to prevent the spread of random small cultures of weak wild yeast and bacterium. They're barely a speed bump when it comes to modern commercial strains.
